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28 Cards in this Set
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What rivers make Mesopotamia fertile? |
Tigris and Euphrates River |
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What does Mesopotamia mean? |
"Land Between Two Rivers" |
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What country do we know call Mesopotamia? |
Iraq |
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What crops were grown? Animals domesticated? |
Wheat, barley, gardens of beans, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, and spice plants, date palms, apples, and pomegranate trees. |
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How was flooding controlled? |
Irrigation systems |
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Where do rivers start? End? |
Start at a water source and end at a delta. |
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Cuneiform-how does it help? |
It was the first system of writing invented in Sumer. |
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Scribe. |
Writers who kept track of records |
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City-States. |
a self governing city |
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Ziggurat |
A large building with a temple on its peak |
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Polytheism. |
Belief in many gods and goddesses |
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Sargon. |
King of city-state Kish |
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Why did city-states go to war? |
To gain control of their precious river water. |
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Two contributions to our culture today? |
1.Wheel 2.Cuneiform |
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Hammurabi-who was he? |
King of Babylonian empire. |
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How did he weaken the Sumerians? |
Dammed key parts of the Euphrates river |
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Code of Hammurabi-what is it? Why is it so important? |
Laws made by Hammurabi. Hammurabi made them himself 4,000 years ago |
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"New" Babylonia-what made it magnificent? |
New rulers respected the history of "Old Babylon" |
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What is the Torah? |
The five books from the Hebrew Bible |
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Covenant |
An agreement between two parties in which each party makes commitments |
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Why did Hebrew go to Egypt? |
To free Israelites from slavery under Egypt |
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Why did Moses have to leave Egypt? |
He was wanted for murder by the pharoah |
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Hebrew Bible |
Information from an exciting time comes from the Hebrew Bible |
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Monotheism vs. Polytheism-what is the difference? |
Monotheism is the belief in one God whereas Polytheism is the belief of many gods or gddesses |
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Sabbath |
A weekly day of rest, prayer and studies |
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Diaspora |
The scattering of Jews |
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Ten Commandments |
The core of Jewish religion and teachings |
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Judaism |
The religion of Jewish people |
