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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Hammurabi or Nebuchadnezzer
Geography
Achievements
100
This syllable is found at the beginning of many words. It is from Greek and means "one".
What is "mono"?
100
a time when food is scarce.
What is a famine?
100
The greatest of Hammurabi's achievements.
What is the Code of Hammurabi- over 280 laws that spelled out the punishments for crimes committed. (An eye for an eye.)
100
This what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "the land between two rivers".
100
They gained control of the Assyrian Empire and rebuilt Babylon.
Who are the Chaldeans?
200
Believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
A king of the first Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The two rivers which Mesopotamia lies between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
They developed a system of writing.
Who are the Sumerians?
300
Believing in only one God.
What is monotheism?
300
A city with it's own government and laws. It is independent of any other government.
What is a city-state?
300
Chaldean King of the New Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
This word means land or soil that is rich in the things crops need to grow well and abundantly.
What is fertile?
300
They traveled by boat in order to trade and they developed the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
a person who went to school to learn to write.
What is a scribe?
400
An agreement or promise especially between God and His people.
What is a covenant?
400
This is the reason that Hammurabi's code so was so important.
What is that it was the first set of laws that were written down. With written laws, everyone would be able to know the rules?
400
The fertile crescent extended between these two large bodies of water.
What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This was a center of learning. Many achievements in math and astronomy were made.
What is Babylon?
500
the scattering of a group of people to different areas.
What is a diaspora?
500
A religious person who tells God's people what God wants them to do.
What is a prophet?
500
This ruler built a grand palace on many terraces. It rose to about 350 feet. (That's a little over half of the Space Needle's height.)
Who is Nebuchadnezzer?
500
The location of Mesopotamia between two rivers helped it become the "Birthplace of Civilization" because of this.
What is that the land was fertile between the two river,. there was lots of water to irrigate crops, the rivers were a source of food (fish) and allowed transportation for the transport of trade goods and the spread of ideas and culture?
500
They developed many weapons and conquered many lands. They were known as great warriors.
Who are the Assyrians?