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What are scribes?
Professional writers known as _________ were important because they were the only people who could keep records for kings and priests.
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What is a battering ram?
This weapon was designed by the Assyrians to destroy city walls.
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What is a code?
This is an organized list of laws.
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What is monotheism?
The belief in one god is called this.
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What is a covenant?
This is a promise made by God.
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What is "land between the rivers"? Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The word "Mesopotamia" comes from the Greek words that mean what?
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What are caravans?
These groups of travelers passed through Babylon as its location was a crossroads of trade.
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What is Hammurabi's Code?
This code had laws for all aspects of life, including adopting children and practicing medicine and was the first code of laws to be written down.
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What is they sold cedar and purple dye to neighboring peoples?
Why did Phoenicia become so wealthy?
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Who is Moses?
Who led the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan?
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What is a ziggurat?
These temples were located in each city-state for their gods and goddesses. Each city-state had its own god or goddess.
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What is an empire?
This is an area of many territories and peoples controlled by one government.
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What are clay tablets?
Scribes wrote on this type of material.
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What is an alphabet?
This is a set of symbols that represents the sounds of language.
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Who are prophets?
These are religious teachers who are regarded as speaking for God.
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What is the Fertile Crescent?
This region of Southwest Asia was the site of the first civilizations and had rich farmland.
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Who is King Hammurabi?
This Babylonian king created the Babylonian Empire by uniting the cities of Sumer.
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What is "an eye-for-an-eye"? The punishment was equal to the crime yet the code did not apply equally to all people.
What idea was Hammurabi's Code based off? Explain this idea.
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Why is they were in control of the sea trade?
Why was it easy for the Phoenician alphabet to spread?
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What is they believed in and worshiped one god?
What were the Israelites known for that made them unique among ancient peoples?
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What are floods?
What natural occurrence took place that was not predictable and caused the destruction of crops?
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What is Babylon?
This was the capital of Babylonia and the center of the empire.
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What is cuneiform?
This is the combination of symbols to make groups of wedges and lines.It helped Sumerians to keep records of daily transactions.
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What is their settlement in Canaan?
What was one of the major events in the history of the Israelites?
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What is the Jewish people were exiled from Judah and later driven out by the Romans from their homeland. They scattered to different parts of the world?
Explain disapora.
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