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Mesopotamia"BTTR"
SS Asselin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language. | alphabet |
| A group of traders traveling together. | caravan |
| An organized list of laws or rules. | code |
| A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines;used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent. | cuneiform |
| Many territories and people who are controlled by one goverment. | empire |
| A time when there is so little food that many people strare. | famine |
| The belief in one God. | monotheism |
| A professional writer. | scribe |
| The belief in many gods. | polytheism |
| A market selling different kinds of goods. | bazaar |
| A city with its own traditions and its own goernment and laws;both a city and a separate independent state. | city-state |
| A blinding agreement. | covenant |
| The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs. | diaspora |
| To force someone to live in another country. | exile |
| A religious leader who told the israelites what God wanted them to do. | prophet |
| According to the bible,a code of laws given to the Israelites by God. | 10 commandments |
| The most sacred text of the early Israelites, that recorded laws and events of their history. | torah |
| An ancient region around southeastern Mesopotamia and between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers; now present-day Iraq. | babylonia |
| A historical kingdom of northern Mesopotamia around present-day Iraq and Turkey. | assyria |
| The site of the earliest known civilization; located in Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq; later became Babylonia. | sumer |
| A river in Iraq and Turkey. | tigris river |
| A river flowing south from Turkey through Syria and Iraq. | enphrates river |
| An arm of the Arabian sea. | persian gulf |
| Located between the Jordan river, Mediterranean sea and the Dead sea. | canaan |
| A temple of the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, made of terraces connected by ramps and stairs, roughly in the shape of a pyramid. | ziggurat |
| beetween the two rivers | mesopotamia |
| A city of ancient Sumer in southern Mesopotamia, located in present-day southeast Iraq. | ur |
| The capital city of modern Israel | jerusalem |
| A salt lake between Israel and Jordan. | dead sea |
| A traditional story. | myth |
| Ancient parshment manuscripts contaning the earliest Bible. | dead sea scrolls |
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