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Old World History
ABeka 6th Grade Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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Middle East | Africa , Asia , Europe (Crossroads of the Ancient World) |
Bedouins | wonder from place to place with their herds of camels , sheep , and goats |
nomads | constantly move from one place to another |
millstones | 2 flat, round stones, one on top of the other. As you rub them together you can grind grain into flour |
papyrus | a paper-like material made from the papyrus plant |
middlemen | people who carry one country's goods to another country |
murex | beautiful purple dye a kind of sea snail was found along the Phoenician coast |
alphabet | Phoenician's most valuable contribution to the new world |
Hittites | earliest known inhabitants of the Asia Minor built great and powerful empire for themselves and was feared for many years |
empire | a group of countries or Kingdom that are under the control of a more powerful ruler |
emperor | powerful ruler who controls the empire |
barter | giving some of it own goods for the goods that it needs |
minted (or made) | Lidia ( ) made the world's first coins |
Jordan river | longest and most important river in Israel |
Dead Sea | the lowest place on earth 1,300 feet below sea level also know as the salt sea |
Ten Commandments | GOD's basic rules for right and wrong |
baal | the most well known of the canaanite gods consider the god of war and storm |
Jericho | no other weapons than shouts and trumpet blast |
jerusalem | Solomon built the magnificent temple |
Jonah | GOD sent a jewish prophet to warn the wicked city of Nieveh |
Code of Hammurabi | it contained nearly 300 laws that governed Babylonians |