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social studies
unit two lessons 1,2,3, and,4 (not working on now)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carthage | a important Phoenician trading post in north Africa |
| Judah | the southern region of Israel that became its own kingdom after the death of Solomon |
| Jerusalem | the capitol of the kingdom of Israel |
| Israel | Jewish kingdom founded by David around 1000 b.c. ; a country in south western Asia |
| Canaan | Eastern Mediterranean land in which Abraham resettled in about 1800 b.c. |
| code of Hammurabi | a set of laws established by Hammurabi |
| conquest | the defeat of another group |
| plateau | an area of high flat land |
| city-state | a city that is an individual unit complete with its own form of government and traditions |
| region | an area on earth with common physical features |
| Shulgi | c. 2100 b.c. king of the Sumerian dynasty of Ur who was also the son of Ur-Nammu |
| civilization | a group of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture |
| covenant | an agreement |
| Babylon | a city-state in Mesopotamia |
| fertile | rich, as in soil |
| dynasty | a ruling family |
| scribe | a professional writer |
| plain | an area of flat land |
| conquer | to defeat |
| synagogue | a Jewish place of worship |
| artisan | a craft person such as a potter or a weaver |
| monotheism | the worship of only one god |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| irrigation | a system of transporting water to crops |
| Ur, Lagash, Umma, Kish, and Nippur | early city-states in mesopotamia |
| Solomon | c. 1000 b.c. son of David and king of Israel |
| Mesopotamia | an area of flat land between the rivers and Euphrates rivers where one of the first civilizations emerged |
| Uruk | a large Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia |
| Sumer | a powerful city-state in southern Mesopotamia |
| barter | to exchange one kind of good or service for another |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion founded by Abraham |
| Torah | the first five books of the Hebrew bible |
| descendant | a person born later in the same family |
| Assyria | region at the foot of the Zagros mountains in the upper Tigris river valley |
| Ur-Nammu | 2200b.c. -2100b.c. Sumerian king who founded the last and most successful dynasty of Ur |
| Enheduanna | c. 2330 b.c. daughter of Sargon and was appointed the high priestess of Ur |
| ziggurat | a huge pyramid shaped structure consisting of a series of stacked rectangular platforms |
| cuneiform | a form of wedge shaped writing used in ancient times |
| Deborah | c. 1200 b.c. female Hebrew judge who encouraged a military leader to gather the peoples of Israel to attack the Canaanites |
| moses | 1400 b.c. - 1200 b.c. Hebrew prophet and teacher who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and received the ten commandments from god |
| Nebuchadnezzar 2 | 630 b.c. - 562 b.c. Chaldean dynasty king of Babylon who took overmuch of the former Assyrian empire and ordered massive building projects |
| Ashurbanipal | reign 668 b.c. - 627 b.c. king of Assyria from 668 b.c. to 627 b.c. when it was at its largest and most powerful |
| society | an organized community with established rules and traditions |
| slavery | the practice of one person owning another person |
| Nineveh | the capitol of the Assyrian empire and the site of a great library under king Ashurbanipal |
| Gilgamesh | c. 2700 b.c. Sumerian king whose adventures were recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Sargon | 2400 b.c. -2300 b.c. Akkadian king who united all of the city-states of Mesopotamia under his rule, forming the world's first empire |
| Hammurabi | 1810 b.c. -1750 b.c. king of Babylon who came to rule all of Mesopotamia and established a written code of laws known as the "code of Hammurabi" |
| David | 1030 b.c. - 965 b.c. second king of Israel who unified the kingdom of Israel |
| Abraham | c. 1800 b.c. a shepherd living in Ur who is considered to by Jewish people to be the first Jew |
| empire | a large territory consisting of many places under the control of single ruler |
| ten commandments | a set of laws that provides guidance for the worship of god and rules for moral behavior |
| Akkad | a city-state in northern Mesopotamia, the ruler of which conquered all of the city-states of Mesopotamia and formed the world's first empire |
| Fertile Crescent | a curved region with rich soil in the middle east where one of the first civilizations developed |
| Babylonia | an empire that included all of Mesopotamia as well as some neighboring city-states |
| divine kingship | the right to rule was god given |
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