People
Left Ur around 2000B.C. to begin a new nation
Abraham
the place where Asia, Africa, and Europe meet
Middle East
Meaning land between two rivers
Mesopotamia
People who are worshippers of one god
monotheist
What does BC after a date mean?
Before Christ
Jacobs favorite son who was sold into slavery by his ten jealous brothers
Joseph
shaped like a crescent moon and had fertile land
Fertile Crescent
People who are worshippers of many gods.
Polytheists
rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples
empire
Equal or greater than God
personifies their gods
Humanists
Ruled Babylon and united all of Mesopotamia
means Arrow
Tigris river
The Sumerian god of the moon
Nanna
an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern.
Bureaucracy
What was the greatest turning point in world history?
The birth of Christ (the first coming)
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the founding fathers of Israel.
Patriarchs
the land where God led Abraham to, and was the center of the ancient world.
Canaan
when laws are made known so that everyone knows then
pomulgation
Greatest accomplishment of the Sumerians
Writing
The system of dividing time is based on the numbering system of who?
Sumerians
The system of dividing time is based on the numbering system of who?
Sumerians
known as the last battle ground in US History
Megiddo
The Babylonian sun god who supposedly gave Hammurabi the power to make laws.
Shamash
What best describes the Sumerians and their religion?
Polytheists and humanists
The god of the sky who also supposedly ruled over the other gods
Anu