Vocabulary
Cuneiform?
Groups of wedges and lines, could be used to represent many languages, the first form of writing
The Importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is water for irrigation, food, reeds for building, deposited fertile soil for farming, transportation.
Scribes used clay tablets and a stylus to impress symbols to track daily activities
What is "cuneiform"?
How did Mesopotamia become a civilization?
Nomadic tribes followed animals to the region, they discovered agriculture, they were able to grow food and domesticate animals, their houses became permanent, small villages formed, eventually, city-states formed as a way to organize people.
Describe King Hammurabi's accomplishment?
What is Hammurabi's Code, a complete set of 282 laws governing social and moral principles?
Polytheism
the worship of many gods
Scribe
A person who recorded sales and trades, tax payments, gifts for the gods, and marriages and deaths?
The Israelites settled __________ of the Phoenicians.
South
The Phonecians invented this
Name the countries where the Fertile Crescent would have been located?
Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, parts of Egypt
What King captured Daniel and many others from Judah?
King Nebuchadnezzar II
Diaspora
the scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
Ziggurat
A giant stone building in the center of the city that was the main temple of the gods?
Egypt is ______________ of Canaan.
South
What made the Phoenicians wealthy?
Purple dye from snails!
What continent was the Fertile Crescent located?
Western Asia
A group of brothers became jealous of their brother and threw him into a pit. Later, they sold him to slave traders heading to Egypt. What was this man's name?
Joseph
myth
a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people's beliefs.
Covenant
A binding agreement?
Where can the Israelites trace their beginnings?
Mesopotamia
These were found in caves in the Judean desert in 1947.
Dead Sea Scrolls
True or false: The Sumerians were monotheistic?
what is "false"?
What caused the Israelites to flee Canaan and go to Egypt?
What is "a famine"?
City-State
a city that operated as a state, with its own special god or goddess, its own government, and eventually, its own king
Nomad
a person who had no settled home
Where did the Phoenicians concentrate their trade routes?
Westward, along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
What did the Dead Sea scrolls prove to scholars?
The same Old Testament we read in modern times has been translated accurately and debunked myths of critics that the old testament prophecies were a fallacy.
Name two major empires of Mesopotamia.
Babylon and Assyria
After Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, God gave him what on a mountain?
10 commandments
Exile
What is "to be forced to leave"?