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The Fertile Crescent
Vocabulary
People & Places
Vocabulary
Kings & rulers
100
The land between the two rivers
What does Mesopotamia mean in greek?
100
a craftsperson
What is an artisan
100
A ziggurat
What is a huge pyramid structure?
100
A writer
What is a scribe
100
Gilgamesh
Who was a legendary king who is said to go on many adventures in a large book of stories
200
The fertile crescent is a part of Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel today
mesopotamia is a part of what countries today?
200
What is a city state
A city with its own form of government and traditions?
200
A Shepard who lived in Ur and is considered to be the first Jew
Who was Abraham?
200
The ten commandments
What did God give to Moses?
200
Sargon
Who united the the city states under his rule?
300
What is a region?
What is an area on earth that has common physical features?
300
Hammurabi
Who ruled Babylon in 1792 bc
300
A set of 282 laws founded by Hammurabi
What is the code of Hammurabi
300
who was Hammurabi
Who became king of Babylon and eventually conquered all of mesopotamia?
400
on a plain
Where did the mesopotamians settle
400
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
400
Canaan
Where did Abraham settle
400
a jewish place of worship
What is a synagogue
400
Nebuchadenezzar II
Who built the hanging gardens for his wife?
500
the system of watering their crops
What is irrigation
500
A form of wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform
500
a Hebrew judge
Who was Deborah?
500
The first 5 books of the hebrew bible
What is the Torah
500
Ashubanipal
Who built a great library at Nineveh, and was also the ruler of Assyria?