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28 Cards in this Set
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Monotheism
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Belief in one god
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Cuneiform
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A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and line
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Famine
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A time when there was so little food that people starved
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Myth
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A traditional story
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Empire
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Many territories who are ocntrolled by one government
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Scribe
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a professional writer who graduated in one of the schools 4000 years ago in Summer
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Polytheism
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A belief in one god
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cARAVAN
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a group of travelers traveling together
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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 binding agreement
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alphabet
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a set of symbols that reprtesnts sounds of a langugage
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code
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An orgainied list of laws and rules
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Why did civilization fail to develop in the fertile crescent?
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The civilizations developed in the fertile crescent because there was rich soil which made food grows for farming
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Why was Hammurabi's code significant?
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They were the first written laws
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What did the Phoenician alphabet make eaiser for the poeple in the ancient world?
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It was eaiser to write and read
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In order to return to Canaan after spening 600 years in Egypt, what did the israelites have to do?
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They had to conquer cannan
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What mediterrain group lead by abraham become monotheistic?
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The israelites
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What allowed Phoenicia to become rich and successful?
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The snails because of their unique dye
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What is the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates called
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Mesopotamia
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Why did Summer develop as seperate city states?
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They could not have controlled the country with one government (too large)
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What about babylonia's location made it a Crossroads for trade
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It was right between the cicties in the north and the south
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Who conquered the Assyrians
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The medes and the chaldeans
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What was the first set of written of laws
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Hammurabi's code
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In what region did writting first develop
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Mesipotamia
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What was an important advatange of the Phonecian alphabet?
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It was less symbols to remeber than cunniform
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What did the babylonians and the israelites have in common
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The both had written laws
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Identify three contribution made by ancient poeoples that lived
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Calendar, writing, math up to 60
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How did the Phonecians location near the mediterranian sea affect it's development?
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it could export goods to other places
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