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43 Cards in this Set
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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
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