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Mr.B's social studies class Mesopotamina
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a salt lake between Israel and Jordan | Dead Sea |
| the ancient capital of Assyria | Nineveh |
| a rich trade sport and the major city of Phoenicia | Tyre |
| a large river west of sumer | Euphrates River |
| a sacred agreement | Covenant |
| a government under an emperor or empress | Empire |
| stories about gods that explain people's beliefs. | Myth |
| a large river also were Jesus was buried. | Jordan River |
| a large body of water south of sumer. | Persian Gulf |
| a republic in south west Asia formed as a Jewish state | Israel |
| a native inhabitant of Phoenicia | Phoenicians |
| a mountain region east of sumer | Zagros Mountains |
| a organized list of laws. | Code |
| another word for a Jewish person | Hebrews |
| means to force people to live in another country | Exile |
| king of Israelite established a capital in Jerusalem | King David |
| the fertile crescent in between the zagros mountains and the Syrian desert | Mesopotamia |
| an area located in the fertile crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris river | Sumer |
| a sea between Europe and Asia | Black Sea |
| a group of wedges and lines | Cuneiform |
| scattering of the people | Diaspora |
| groups of travelers coming and going from the cites. | Caravan |
| a shop or market were you can buy food and other goods. | Bazaar |
| is a time were there is little food | Famine |
| king of Israelite son of David. | Solomon |
| a king of Babylon and conquer of Jerusalem | Nebuchadnezzar |
| a river to the east of sumer | Tigris river |
| a native inhabitant of Assyrians | Assyrian |
| 18th century king of Babylon | Hammurabi |
| to believe in many gods. | polytheism |
| the doctrine of or belief in many gods or in many god | Sargon |
| a set of symbols that represented the sounds of the language. | Alphabet |
| important people they were the only people in the land who kept records for kings and priests. | Scribe |
| the Pentateuch being the first of the three Jewish divisions,in the old testament | Torah |
| Israelite leader led the Israelite out of Egypt to canan. | Moses |
| one of an ancient Semitic people that formed the dominant element in Babylon | Chaldeans |
| the study of planets and stars | Astronomy |
| A river along the shoreline of the Persian gulf | Ur |
| a region by the ancient | Canaan |
| a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramid tower | Ziggurat |
| to believe in one god | moinothesiem |
| religious leaders | Prophet |
| the first of the great biblical patriarchs | Abraham |
| a long story about gilgamesh | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| the laws that the isralitites belived god gave them | 10 commandments |
| anchent parchment manuscripts containg the earlists version of the first few books of the bible | Dead sea scrolls |
| the captal city of modern israil.A holy city for jews, christains, and muslums | Jerusalem |
| a 2 wheeled vehicle that holds one person and is usally driven by horses | Chariot |
| an ancheint reigon around southwest mesopotamia in between the tigris and euphrhates river | Babylon |
| a place with its own special god or goddess and eventually its own government and king. | city state |
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