Vocab 1
Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
What is currency?
Soldiers who fight while riding horses
What is a calvary?
The ability to water crops
What is irrigation?
The belief in one god
What is monotheism?
Communities of Jews living outside their homeland
Who are the Diaspora?
An area that is ruled by a distant country
What is a colony?
The belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism?
The idea that all members of a society should obey the law
What is the rule of law?
Small letters of symbols that represent a single sound
What is an alphabet?
The first 5 books of the Jewish Bible
What is the Torah?
A payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power
What is tribute?
An idea or a way of doing things common in a certain culture
What is a cultural trait?
A state including several countries and territories
What is an empire?
Leaders who were warriors or prophets who defended their land
What is a judge?
A Jewish gathering place of worship
What is a synagogue?
To trade items for goods or services
What is bartering?
A permanent army of professional soldiers
What is a standing army?
An independent city that includes the surrounding area, its own government, and its own laws
What is a city-state?
Goods or services sold within a country that was produced in another country
What is an import?
God promised that Canaan is their land and God will lead Abraham and the Israelites to it
What is the connection, according to Hebrew Bible, between Abraham's covenant with God and the Israelites' beliefs about Canaan?
A large pyramid-like temple
What is a ziggurat?
A form of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to represent words
What is cuneiform?
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
What is Hammurabi's code?
Goods or services made in the country and bought in another country
What is an export?
They made a 22 letter alphabet which made it easier to remember than the 100 symbol cuneiform
What impact did the Phoenicians have on reading and writing?