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What is a city-state?
A city that is also its own idependent state.
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What is Zorotranism?
A religon that developed in ancient Persia.
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How many lawas did Hammurabi's code consist of?
282 laws
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How many symbols did the alphabet consist of?
22 letters.
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What does diaspora mean?
The scattering of people who have a common backround or belief.
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What is the Fertile Cresent?
A region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the world's first civilizations.
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What made Babylon rich?
Trade
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Where did the clay for the tablets come from?
When the ice melted in the spring, the waters washed down clay.
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Who was the leader of the Israelites?
Abraham.
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What two religons orginated from Judaism
Christianity and Islam
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What rivers surround Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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Who invented the battering ram?
The Assyrians
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The shape and size of each tablet depened on its?
Importance.
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What was the first reason the Israelites moved to Egypt?
Famine
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What did Sumerian myths warn?
The gods would punish people who angered them.
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Why were the Assyrians skilled at fighting?
They were always defending themselves.
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Why were the scribes wealthy?
Since they were one of the few people who could write, many illiterate people asked them to write something for a fee.
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What two items did the Phoenicians trade?
Purple dyed cloth and cedar wood.
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What did the prophets preach about the rich and powerful people?
That they are to protect the poor.
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How did the rivers surrounding Mesopotamia bring death?
They swept away people, animals, crops, and homes.
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Which two groups overthrew the Assyrian empire in 612 B.C.?
Medes and Chaldeans.
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What was Hammurabi's code based one.
An eye for an eye.
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Which group sent the poeple of Judah into exile?
Chaldean Babylonians
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Why did the Jews move away from their homeland?
They saw their homeland controlled by various foreign powers, including the Romans. The Romans drove the Jews out of Jerusalem.