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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Achievements
Critical Thinking
Geography
100
The Israelite's binding agreement with God
What is a covenant?
100
Professional writers who kept records in Sumer and other early civilizations.
What is a scribe?
100
The first set of written laws created by a Babylonian king.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
The hardships of the Israelites (at least two)
What are famine, exile, and enslavement?
100
This feature attracted people to the Fertile Crescent.
What is rich soil?
200
The belief in one god versus the belief in several gods
What is monotheism versus polytheism?
200
A Greek word meaning "between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
A set of laws passed down from God to the Israelites from by the prophet Moses.
What are the Ten Commandments?
200
The stages of early writing (at least three)
What are pictures then symbols then cuneiform then the alphabet?
200
The two rivers of Mesopotamia (must give both)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
300
Not enough food to go around
What is a famine?
300
Stories that help explain people's beliefs
What are myths?
300
Phoenician's two achievements (must name both)
What are the world's first trading empire and the alphabet?
300
City-states versus an empire
What are separate, independent cities versus many territories and people controlled by one government
300
The Phoenicians sailed along this body of water to sell the purple dye of snails.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Artisan goods were sold in this market.
What is a bazaar?
400
A method of writing used by the Mesopotamians that is composed of wedge-shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
400
Assyrian's two achievements (must name both)
What are the library of Nineveh and military technology (battering ram)?
400
Three important parts of the philosophy of Hammurabi's Code.
What are "an eye for an eye," punishment depends on class, and guilty even if by accident?
400
The Israelites were driven out of this place due to famine.
What is Canaan?
500
An area in Europe and Asia with rich soil that is shaped like a phase of the moon.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
They traveled between early cities in order to trade goods.
What are caravans?
500
Two Sumerian inventions that helped control flooding and use water for farming.
What are levees and irrigation?
500
The unique beliefs of the Israelites (name at least three)
What are monotheism, covenant with God, God's chosen people, God is everywhere, and even the king must obey the Ten Commandments?
500
The rivers of Mesopotamia empty out in this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?