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Geography
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Rulers/Societies
Religion
100
Mesopotamia means _________________.
What is "the land between two rivers?"
100
A type of religious temple found in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
100
A group of states under the control of one ruler.
What is an empire?
100
The Phoenicians are remembered for creating the first ___________.
What is an alphabet?
100
The belief in only one god
What is monotheism?
200
The longest river in Mesopotamia. It is the river to the west.
What is the Euphrates?
200
Producing more food that is needed to survive is a _____________.
What is surplus?
200
The ruler of Mesopotamia who used "an eye for an eye" to write his laws and punishments.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
He created the first empire, known as Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
200
The first important ruler to believe in only one god; the father of the Hebrew people.
Who is Abraham?
300
The area fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the ___________.
What is Fertile Crescent?
300
Wedge-shaped letters on soft clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
300
The key figure in Jewish history parted the Red Sea.
Who is Moses?
300
This was the first known civilization in the world.
What is Sumer?
300
He received the Ten Commandments from God.
Who is Moses?
400
The Tigris and Euphrates dropped ___________, a rich mixture of rocks and soil, on the land after they flooded.
What is silt?
400
A person in Sumer whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
400
The mass departure of the Hebrews from Egypt.
What is the exodus?
400
This was a king of the Israelites who built up the city of Jerusalem, as well as his huge temple.
What is Solomon?
400
The five books of the Jewish bible.
What is Torah?
500
Farmers in Mesopotamia got water for their fields by what innovation?
What is irrigation?
500
The branch of the law that deals with private rights and matters.
What is a civil law?
500
In Mesopotamia, a city and all the farmland surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
500
Under the rule of Darius I, this became one of the largest empires the world had ever seen.
What is Persia?
500
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?