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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fertile Crescent | A region of rich farmland that curves from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf centered on the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
| Mesopotamia | The area that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southwest Asia |
| Ziggurat | A Sumerian temple made of sun-dried brick that was dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a particular city-state |
| City-State | A political unit that includes a town or a city and the surrounding land controlled by it |
| Polytheism | The belief in many gods and goddesses; Hinduism |
| Dynasty | A family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian Writing; First ever writing |
| Sargon | King of Akkad in Mesopotamia; conquered many cities along the middle of Euphrates to northern Syria |
| Hammurabi | King of Babylonia; military leader who brought all of Mesopotamia onto the Babylonian Empire; Known for 282 laws |
| Indo-Europeans | A group of Semi-nomadic people who migrated from southern Russia to the Indian subcontinent around |
| Steppes | Arid grasslands; where the Indo-Europeans came from |
| Nebuchadnezzar ll | Chaldean king of Babylon from 605 to 562 BC; rebuilt the city beautiful and noted for its famed Hanging Gardens |
| Judaism | A monotheistic religion originating with the Israelite's, tracing its origins to Abraham, and having its spiritual and ethical principals embodied chiefly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud |
| Torah | The first five books of the Hebrew bible; The most sacred texts of the Jewish faith |
| Abraham | Originator of the Jewish line of descent; Deep devotion to great trust in the will of god as told in the bible |
| Covenant | A binding agreement, like a contract |
| Patriarch | An ancestral "father"of Judaism |
| Moses | Hebrew prophet and lawgiver; He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and back to Canaan in the Exodus; This is the journey that god gave him the Ten commandments |
| Exodus | The Escape of the Hebrews from Egypt; Moses helped them escape |
| Diaspora | Dispersal of the Jews from their homeland in Palestine during 2600 years that followed the destruction of the Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BC by the Chaldean's |
| Monotheism | The belief in one god; Like Christianity they believe in Jesus |
| Cyrus the great | King of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire; He defeated the Median army and united the Persians and Medians under his rule |
| Darius l | King of Persia from 522 to 486 BC; He reorganized and and strengthened the Persian Empire by reforming the army and the government |
| Satrap | Governors of ancient Persia; Persia was to large for one ruler to see everything to the ruler Darius chose Satraps (Governors) |
| Xerxes | King of Persia; His armies invaded Greece but eventually defeated by the Greeks |
| Zoroaster | Religious teacher and prophet of ancient Persia;he founded a religious known as Zoroastrianism based on the idea that people have free will and can act as they choose |
| Dualism | The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil |
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