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31 Cards in this Set
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deity
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god or godess
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scribe
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professional writer
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city-state
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city that is separate independent state
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polytheism
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belief in many gods
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myth
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a traditional story
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empire
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many territories and people controlled by one government
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caravan
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group of traders traveling together
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bazaar
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market selling different kinds of goods
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battering ram
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powerful weapon with wooden beam mounted on wheels
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code
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organized list of laws and rules
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cuneiform
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groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent
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alphabet
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set of symbols that represents sounds of languages
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monotheism
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belief in one god
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famine
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time when there is so little food that many people starve
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exile
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to force someone to live in another country
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covenant
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a promise made by God
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prophet
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religious teacher who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god
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diaspora
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scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
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stylus
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an instrument of metal, bone, or the like, used by the ancients for writing on waxed tablets
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ziggurat
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a pyramidal temple
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proverb
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a wise saying or precept
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conquest
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the act of conquering
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astronomy
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the science that deals with the material universe beyond the earth's atmosphere
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pictograph
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a record consisting of pictorial symbols, like a prehistoric cave drawing
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lex talionis
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the idea that the punishment should fit the crime - eye for an eye
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retribution
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punishment imposed for purposes of repayment or revenge for the wrong committed
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exodus
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the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.
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Torah
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first five books of the Hebrew Scripture
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ethics
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a system of moral principles
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legacy
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anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor
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cultural diffusion
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the process by which a cultural trait, idea, or behavior is spread from one society to another
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