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chapter 2 vocab.
| Word | Definiton |
|---|---|
| Scribe | A person who copies out documents, esp. one employed to do this before printing was invented. |
| Covenant | A binding agreement |
| Dead Sea | A salt lake between Israel and Jordan; Lowest point on earth |
| Ziggurat | a temple of the ancient sumerians and Babylonians, made of terraces connected by ramps and stairs, roughly in the shape of a pyramid. |
| Zigros Mountains | Largest mountain range in iraq and iran over 900 miles long with peakes over 1200 feet |
| Phoenicia | An ancient region in present day Lebanon |
| King David | King of Israelite after Saul |
| Tributary | A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake. |
| Mesopotamia | An ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq |
| Polythesim | The belief in more than one god |
| Confluence | The junction of two rivers, esp. rivers of approximately equal width |
| Abraham | First leader of the israelites;according to the bible, he led his family to Canaan, where he became the founder of a new nation |
| Famine | A time when there is so little food that many people starve |
| Assyrians | (assyria) an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq |
| Persian gulf | An arm of the Arabian Sea,located between the Arabian peninsula and southwest Iran |
| Myth | A traditional story |
| Moses | Israelite leader; led the israelites from Egypt to Canaan;according to the bible, he received the ten commandments from God |
| Chariot | The earliest and simplest type of carriage |
| Torah | (in Judaism) The law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch). |
| City state | A city with its own traditions and its own governments and laws; both a city and separate independent state |
| Euphrates River | a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf |
| Israel | A country in the Middle East. |
| Prophet | A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God |
| Empire | Many territories and people who are controlled by one government |
| Peninsula | A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. |
| Babylon | A city of ancient sumer in southern Mesopotamia, located in present day southeast Iraq; between Tigris and Euphrates river |
| Sinai Peninsula | a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea |
| Astronomy | The branch of science that studies the planets, stars, moon and other objects in the universe |
| Tigris River | A river in iraq and turkey |
| Alphabet | A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order |
| Nineveh | An ancient city located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, opposite the modern city of Mosul. |
| 10 Commandments | a list of religious and moral imperatives |
| Exile | To force someone to live in another country |
| Canaan | A region occupied by the ancient israelites, also known as Palestine, located between the Jordan river, mediteranean sea and the dead sea, on a site that includes present day Israel and part of Jordan |
| Chaldeans | an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert |
| Solomon | A very wise person |
| Jordan River | a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan. |
| Canal | An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. |
| Epic Of Gilgamesh | an ancient poem from Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) and is among the earliest known works of literature |
| Bazaar | A market selling different kinds of goods |
| Hebrews | A book of the New Testament. |
| Hammurabi | King of babylon from 1792 to 1750 bc; creator of babylonia empire; established on of the oldest code of law |
| Monothesis | The belief in one god |
| Sumer | An ancient region in southwestern Asia, in present-day Iraq, comprising the southern part of Mesopotamia. |
| Sargon | founder of the ancient kingdom of Akkad |
| Code | A system of words, letters, figures, or other symbols used to represent others, esp. for the purposes of secrecy. |
| Tyre | A rich trade port and a major city of phoenicia, located on the eastern mediteranean sea in present day southern Lebanon |
| Cuneiform | A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of fertile crescent |
| Black Sea | An almost landlocked sea bounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania and connected to the Mediterranean Sea |
| Diaspora | The scattering of people who have a common background or belief |
| Caravan | A group of traders traveling together |
| Jerusalem | The capitol city of modern Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | Ancient parchment manuscripts containing the earliest version of the first few books of the bible |
| Ur | An ancient Sumerian city, formerly on the Euphrates River, in southern Iraq. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a king of Babylonia |
| Babylonia | An ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates river in southwest Asia |
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