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Geography of Ancient Mesopotamia
Civilization in Mesopotamia
Conquests and Empires
The Ancient Israelites
The Phoenicians and the Lydians
100
Long times with little or no rain
What is Drought?
100
Extra supply.
What is Surplus?
100
Take over the lands of others.
What is Conquer?
100
Belief in one god.
What is Monotheism?
100
A settlement separate from, but under the control of, a home country.
What is a Colony?
200
The use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas.
What is Irrigation?
200
A person who writes things for others.
What is a Scribe?
200
a conquered land of many peoples and places governed by one ruler.
What is an Empire?
200
The journey of the Israelites from Egypt, across the Red Sea, through the desert, and back toward Canaan.
What is the Exodus.
200
The spreading of new ideas to other places.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
300
A rich mixture of bits of rock and soil.
What is Silt?
300
A huge mud-brick temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
Ruler of an empire.
What is an Emporer?
300
A set of laws that God gave to Moses.
What are the Ten Commandments?
300
The exchange of one good or service for another.
What is Barter?
400
A high, flat area of land.
What is a Plateau?
400
A centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning.
What is a Civilization?
400
A system in which people are required to pay taxes to support the government.
What is taxation?
400
The first five books of the Bible.
What is the Torah?
400
An economic system based on the use of money.
What is a Money Economy?
500
low, flat land formed from fine soils deposited by rivers.
What is Alluvial Plain?
500
The skills and knowledge to make products or meet goals.
What is Technology?
500
Fair treatment under the law.
What is equal justice?
500
The settling of the Jews outside of Israel.
What is the Diaspora?
500
A color that has come to be thought of as a "royal color".
What is Purple?