Chapter 2 Of The History Of The World: From Sumer To Canaan

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dispersion

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the scattering of people over the earth

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Middle East

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a part of the world where the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe meet

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Abraham

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the father of the nation of Israel

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Ur

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one of the most important cities in the land of Sumer; where Abraham lived before God called him to leave

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fertile crescent

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an area in the Middle east with an ability to grow crops and its shape resembles a crescent moon

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Tigris

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one of the two great rivers which ran through Mesopotamia, making it fertile; means "arrow"

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Euphrates`

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one of the two great rivers which ran through Mesopotamia, making it fertile; means "that makes fruitful"

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B.C.

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"before the birth of Christ"

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A.D.

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an abbreviation for the Latin words "anno domini" meaning "in the year of our Lord"

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circa

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Latin for "approximately"

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Mesopotamia

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the area between and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; means "land between the rivers"

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Hamitic

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descendants of Ham

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Sargon the Great

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the Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerians

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Sumerian accomplishments

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irrigation, cooperation, kingship, the wheel, the system of dividing time, writing

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writing

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the Sumerians were the first people after the Flood to have used writing; the Sumerian's greatest accomplishment

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polytheists

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worshipers of many gods

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monotheist

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worshiper of one god

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humanists

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made men into gods

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Anu

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the Sumerian god of the sky which supposedly ruled all the other gods

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ziggurats

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towers built in tiers or stages, each stage smaller than the one beneath, all atop a large mound of clay or debris

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Nanna

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the Sumerian moon god; the god of the city of Ur

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Ur-Nammu

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the Sumerian king who is pictured as a worker building the ziggurat

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empire

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rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples

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Babylon

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the capital city of Babylonia

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Hammurabi

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the Babylonian king who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule

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bureaucracy

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an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern

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Shamash

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the Babylonian sun god who supposedly gave Hammurabi the right to make laws

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laws

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rules people follow in living together

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promulgation

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to make known

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equality under the law

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means that all people who commit the same crime should be punished in the same way

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Inanna

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the Sumerian goddess of love

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Ishtar

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the Babylonian goddess of love

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Marduk

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the chief god of the city of Babylon who became the king of all the gods

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Canaan

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the center of the ancient world

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Megiddo

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Armagedon; where the last great battle of history will take place

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Patriarchs

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

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the Patriarchs; the founding fathers of Israel

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nation-state

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a nation or a people living on its own land with its own government

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what was Canaan's center of political or military power

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Canaan had no single center of political or military power

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Baal

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the chief god of the Canaanites

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Sodom and Gomorrah

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the two Canaanite cities which God destroyed with fire and brimstone

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nomads

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wandering herdsmen with no permanent home

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Joseph

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the Israelite who was sold into slavery by his brothers and became the chief assistant to an Egyptian king when he interpreted the king's dreams