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42 Cards in this Set
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Lamech |
Man's rebellion against God is seen in this man's life who bragged about the murders he had committed. |
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The people of Sumer |
These people irrigated their land with canals and developed a written language. |
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Equality under the law |
This means all people who commit the same crime should be punished in the same way. |
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Promulgation |
Means making the laws known. |
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Nation-State |
A nation or people living in its own land with its own government. |
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Sargon |
The King of Akkad |
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Anu |
Sumerian god of the sky who supposedly ruled all the other Sumerian gods. |
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Baal |
Chief god of the Canaanites. |
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Shamash |
Babylonian sun god who supposedly gave Hammurabi authority to make his code of laws. |
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Amorites and Elamites |
An invasion by ___ and ___ brought the Sumerian empire to an end in the 1900s BC |
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Nanna |
The Sumerian god that supposedly owned the city of Ur. |
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Wheel |
Sumerians were the first people known to have used this device which is now used by everyone almost every day. |
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Cuneiform |
Wedge-shaped writing form that provided the world with perhaps the first written language. |
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Humanism |
Putting man in place of or above God |
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Evolution (theory) |
The belief man was not created by God, but evolved from animals |
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Culture |
The way of life of a group of people |
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Shinar or Sumer |
The place where survivors of the flood settled |
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Nimrod |
Leader of Shinar, and head of the construction of Babel and it's tower. |
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Nation |
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit |
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Dispersion |
The scattering of people over the earth |
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Middle East |
Where the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe meet |
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Fertile Crescent |
The area of the Middle East known for its ability to grow crops |
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Tigris |
River that means "arrow" |
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Euphrates |
River that means "that makes fruitful" |
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Mesopotamia |
Area around the Tigris and Euphrates; Means "land between rivers" |
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Ur-Nammu |
King of Ur, builder of the ziggurat. |
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Hammurabi |
King of Babylon who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule |
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Bureaucracy |
An organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern |
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Marduk |
Chief god of Babylon city; king of all gods (per Babylonians) |
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Canaan |
Center of the ancient world; location where Abraham was called to |
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Sargon |
King of Akkad that conquered the Sumerians |
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Stylus |
Writing instrument |
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Cuneiform |
A wedge shaped writing |
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Anu |
Sumerian God of the sky |
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Ziggurats |
Towers built in tiers or stages, each smaller than the one beneath it, all atop a large mound of clay or debris |
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Nanna |
Sumerian God of the moon |
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Empire |
Rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples |
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Babylon |
Center of a new empire |
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Shamash |
Babylonian God of the sun |
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Promulgation |
Making laws known |
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Nation-State |
A nation or people living in it's own land with it's own government |
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Baal |
Chief god of the Canaanites |