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a professional writer
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Fertile Crescent
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a region in Southwest Asia
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city-state
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a city also it's own state with a ruler and government; independent
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polytheism
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the belief in many gods
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myth
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stories about gods
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bazaar
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cotton clothes and spices are sold there
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Babylon
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was the center of the Babylonian's empire
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empire
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an area of many territories and people that controlled by on government
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battering ram
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a powerful gun that is used to knock down walls
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caravan
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a group of travelers
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code
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an organized list of laws
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Hammurabi
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the king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and creator of the Babylonian Empire
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cuneiform
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combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines
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alphabet
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a set of symbols that represents that sounds of a language
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monotheism
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a belief in one god
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famine
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a time when there is little food and many people starve
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exile
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to force someone to live in a different country
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covenant
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a promise from god
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Moses
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an Israelite leader who lived sometime around 1200 BC
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prophet
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religious teachers who are regarded as speaking for God
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diaspora
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the scattering of a group of people
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ziggurat
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a temple
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astronomy
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study of stars
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deity
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a god
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conquest
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when someone conquers someone and their empire expands
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proverb
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a wise short saying which was one of the first public thing that cuneiform was used for
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Torah
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the Jewish bible; the old testament; recorded events of the old Israelites
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legacy
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what you are known for
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ethics
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your actions; how you are supposed to act
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cultural diffusion
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a spreading of cultures
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Exodus
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the great movement from Egypt to the desert
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retribution
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punishment for what you did wrong
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pictograph
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representation of pictures and data
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code
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a organized list of laws
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