Vocabulary 1
A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river
Silt
What two rivers run through the Fertile Crescent?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers
A long period of dry weather
Drought
1700's B.C. Founder of Judaism, led his family from Ur to Canaan
Abraham
A professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents
Scribe
A raised, arched structure built to carry water over long distances
Aqueduct
How did the farmers in Mesopotamia control flooding?
The built a system of levees to control flood waters.
A written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government
Code of Law
c. 1200's B.C. Prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egpyt
Moses
A wall built along a riverbank to prevent flooding
Levee
A group of lands and peoples ruled by one government
Empire
Why might scribes own tablets?
So they could write down laws, legends, songs, poetry and so forth
The belief in many gods and goddesses
Polytheism
Died 2279? B.C. King who united the city-states of Sumer to create an Empire.
Sargon
A belief in one God
Monotheism
A person who is believed to speak for God
Prophet
What nation did the Hebrews establish in Canaan?
Israel
The religion of the Jewish people
Judaism
c. 2600 B.C. Legendary Mesopotamian King and hero
Gilgamesh
A special agreement
Covenant
According to the Hebrew Bible, the laws God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai
Ten Commandments
With which empires were the sister cities of Nineveh and Babylon associated?
Nineveh was associated with Assyria, and Babylon with the Babylonian Empire
The scattering of Jews to many parts of the world
Diaspora
1800?-1750? B.C. King of the Babylonian Empire, creator of one of the worlds oldest known codes of law
Hammurabi
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible containing the laws and teachings of Judaism
Torah