Histoy Mesopotamia

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This is a belief in many gods

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polytheism

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This land reaches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and it differs from the surrounding territory in the richness of its land.

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Fertile Crescent

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Creator of the world's first empire

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Sargon

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The land between the Tigris and Euphrates

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Mesopotamia

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This is a political unit that operates similarly to an independent kingdom, it is self sustaining and it shares a culture with other areas.

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City-State

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The most southern region of Mesopotamia

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Sumer

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This is a series of rulers, all from the same family.

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Dynasty

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This is the result of uniting several peoples, nations, or formerly independent states under one ruler

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empire

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The process in which a new idea of a product spreads from one culture to another.

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cultural diffusion

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A government in which power is in one persons hands

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monarchy

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The first complex society developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of

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Sumer

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The word Semitic refers to

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A language type

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A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid was known as a

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ziggurat

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A New Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century B.C.E. by

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Nebuchadnezzar

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The military power that used iron and advanced tactics to dominate Mesopotamia during 750 B.C.E.

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Assyrians

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How did Sargon of Akkad form the first empire?

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by taking control of both northern and southern Mesopotamia

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The technology of iron smelting was first produced by

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Hittites

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What was the name of the high rocky plateau in modern-day Turkey that was rich in timber and agriculture?

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Anatolia

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According to the Torah. the first covenant between God and the Hebrew people involved an agreement that...

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God would bless Abraham and his descendants, once Abraham demonstrates his faith

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Monotheism describes the Hebrew's belief that their God was

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the one and only God

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According to the Torah, the man who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai was

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Moses

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The man responsible for having a great temple built in Jerusalem, a temple that was destroyed and later rebuilt, was

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Solomon

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He established Jerusalem as the Israelite capital

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David

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He led the Hebrew into Egypt

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Joseph

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The tribute paid bu Israel and Judah to the Assyrians was an effort to

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prevent an attack by the Assyrians on Israel and Judah

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The most sacred writings of the Jewish religion are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the,

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Torah

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The most able seafarers of the early Mediterranean were the

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Phoenicians

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In the Hebrew tradition. a covenant is

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a mutual promise between God and Humanity

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What was the ancient name for the region where the Hebrews settled between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea?

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Canaan

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The Ten Commandments became the basis for

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the civil and religious laws of Judaism

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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have a common root in the Hebrew idea of

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Ethical Monotheism

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Where did the Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal build his famous library which housed 20,000 clay tablets?

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Nineveh

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English, Persian, Spanish, and Hindi are all derived from the languages spoken by the

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Indo-Europeans

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In which culture did the concept of two warring gods-one promoting God and one evil- who fight for control of a person's soul?

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Persian

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He began a series of conquests that led to the creation of the Persian Empire

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Cyrus

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He divided the Persian Empire into more than 20 provinces

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Darius

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He conquered Egypt and, despite his father's example, scorned its people's beliefs.

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Cambyses

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He established the manufacture and exchange of metal coins of standard values within the Persian Empire

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Darius

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They were the pastoral culture that produced many tribes who migrated throughout Europe and Asia

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Indo-European

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He built the Royal Road

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Darius

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They destroyed the Second Temple of the Jews in 70 C.E.

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Romans