Mesopotamia 1
Right below Kings in the Social Class system
What is a priest?
More than is needed.
What is a surplus?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
A forced removal from one's country
What is exile?
a religious agreement with God
What is a covenant?
farming tool that prepared the fields faster for planting.
What is the plow?
Hammurabi's Code had this many laws
What is 282?
Studying the sun, moon and stars helped Sumerians develop this
What is the calendar?
God told Abraham to settle here
What is Canaan?
The Father of the Jewish people
Who is Abraham?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of what?
What is the gods were angry with them?
Sumerian people believed this lived at the top of the ziggurat
What is a deity(god or goddess)?
The invention that led to: carts, wagons, & pottery
What is the wheel?
This person freed the Jews and encouraged them to rebuild Judah
Cyrus the Great
The length of the Exodus
The largest building in most Sumerian cities
What is a ziggurat?
earliest form of writing
What is Cuneiform ?
"the teachings"
What is the Torah?
God gave Moses The Ten Commandments here
What is Mount Sinai?
This king built a magnificent temple in Jerusalem
Who is Solomon?
System of canals bringing water to the land
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land Between the Rivers?
3 reasons city-states went to war with each other
What is protecting fertile land, limited natural resources, and profitable trade routes?
The first King of Israel
Who is Saul?
This group of people destroyed the Second Temple
Who are the Romans?