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mesapotamia
TERM | DEFFONITION |
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archives | a place where public records or other historical documents are kept |
Jerusalum | The capital city of modern Israel; a holy city of Jews, Christians and muslums |
assyrians | people from assyria |
battering ram | an ancient military divice with a heavy horizantle ram for battering down walls |
coverant | a building agreement |
King David | king of the isrelites fter saul |
UR | A city of ancient sumer in southern meesapotamia, located in present day southeast iraq |
Ziggurat | a reigion occupied by the ancient israelites, also known as plantine, located between the jordan river, mediteranean sea and the Dead Sea, one a ite that includes present day isreal and part of jorddan river |
chariot | The chariot is the earlist and simplist tyee off carrige |
phoenician | a native or inhabitant |
nineveh | capital of assyria |
empire | a group of nations or peoples ruled over by one an empire |
phoenicians | a native or inhabitant |
israel | the country in southwest asia |
hebrews | the Jewish people; the tribe the Jewish people came from |
exile | to force someone to live in another country |
canaan | a religion occupied by the ancient Israelite' also known as Palestine, located between the Jordan river, mediterainian sea and the dead sea, on a site that includes present day Israel and part of Jordan |
monotheisum | the belief in god |
prophet | a religious leader who told the Israelites when what god wanted them to do |
Epic of Gilgamesh | a very long story about a sumerian hero |
babylon | center of the babylonian empire |
confluence | where one or more riverns meat |
tributary | feeder river; river that feeds into a large river |
cuneiform | a form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the fertile cresent |
diaspora | the scattering of people who have common backgrounds or beliefs |
caravan | a group of traders traveling together |
bazaar | a market selling different kinds of goods |
famine | the time when there is so little food that many people starve |
nebuchadezzer | king of new babylonian empire from 605 to 561 bc |
assyria | a historical kingdom of northern mesapotamia around present day iraq and turkey |
polytheisum | the beliefs in many gods |
saragon | king of assyria, conquered babylonia and founded the last great assyriam dynasty |
scribe | a proffectional writer |
moses | israelite leader; led the israelites from egypt to canaan; according to the bible' he received the tem commandments from god |