Vocabulary
Money, something used for exchange
Currency
To supply water to
Irrigate
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers... What are they?
Tigris and Euphrates
Most of what Jews believe about the origins of their religion comes from where?
The Torah
Who was the first king of Israel?
Saul
Belief in a single God
Monotheism
Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
Mesopotamia
Why were priests important in Sumerian city-states?
Sumerians believed that they were the only ones who could communicate with the gods
The escape of the Israelites from slavery is known as what?
Exodus
What did Solomon have built during his time as king?
First five books of the Hebrew Bible
Torah
Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas of things
Cuneiform
Hammurabi's empire is known as what?
What is the connection between the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament?
The Hebrew Bible is the basis for the Christian Old Testament, just in a different order.
Under which empire were the Jews exiled from their homeland and sent to Babylon?
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Nebuchadnezzar was the ruler.
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
Hammurabi's Code
An order to do something
Commandment
In what two ways did Darius the Great reform the government?
What is ethical monotheism?
There is only one god and god is the only one who sets down what is right and wrong.
Due to the Diaspora, how did the way that Jews worship change?
Synagogues were created for Jews to go and pray, study the Hebrew Bible or other religious texts, and worship.
Jewish communities outside the ancient Jewish homeland, from a Greek word meaning dispersion, or scattering
Diaspora
Separation from one’s homeland
Exile
Why did the Phoenician people NEED to travel to other places?
Needed to find resources because they didn't have an abundance of natural resources.
What is the Sabbath? What day of the week is this?
Sabbath is the weekly day of rest. On the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday.
In which two countries do most Jews live?
Israel and the United States