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Chapter 2 word
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a salt lake between Israel and Jordan; the Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth | Dead sea |
| The Jordan River (American English) or River Jordan (British English) (Hebrew: נהר הירדן nehar hayarden, Arabic nahr al-urdun) is a river in Southwest Asia which flows into the Dead Sea. It is considered to be one of the world's most sacred rivers.[3] I | Jorden River |
| David Hebrew: , Modern David Tiberian , "beloved"; Arabic: Dāwud; Greek: was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Bible. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musicia | King David |
| king of the Israelites after his father David; built cites, temples, and establised foregn and aliances | Solomon |
| the most scared text of the early Israelites, that recorded laws and events of their history | Torah |
| first leaderof the israelites; according to the bible, he led his family to cannan where he became the founder of a new nation | Abraham |
| an arm of the Arabian Sea,located between the Arabian Peninsula and southwest Iran | Persian Gulf |
| The Black Sea is an inland sea bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. | Black Sea |
| an anicient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southwest Asia | Mesopotamia |
| king of the new Babylonian empire from about 605 to 56 | Nebuchadnezzar |
| Israelite leader; led the Isralities from Egypt to Canaan; according o thebible he received the Ten Commandments from God | moses |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary writing. | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq. | Nineveh |
| a country in Southwest Asia | Isral |
| 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 | Trigris River |
| Historical Babylonia, in particular in a Hellenistic context | chaldeans |
| The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Hebrew Bible, were spoken by God (referred to in several names) to the people of Israel from the mountain referred to as Mount Sinai [2] or Horeb,[3] | 10 commandment |
| a rich tradeport and the major city of Phoenicia, located on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in presnt- day soothern lebanon | Tyre |
| an ancient region in present- day Lebanon | Phoenicians |
| a form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the Fertile crescent | cuneiform |
| the branch of science that studies the planets, stars, moon, and other objects in the universe | astronomy |
| ancient parchment manuscripts containing the earliest | dead sea scrolls |
| a river flowing south from Turkey through Syria and Iraq | euphrates river |
| are the largest mountain range in Iran and Iraq. With a total length of 1,500 km (932 mi), from northwestern Iran, and roughly correlating with Iran's western border, the Zagros range spans the whole length of the western and southwestern Iranian plateau | Zagros Mountain |
| a city of ancient Sumer in southern Mesopotamia, located in present-day southwest Iraq | ur |
| a group of traders traveling together | caravan |
| the capital city of modern Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christans, and Muslimes | Jesrusalem |
| a market selling different kinds of goods | bazaar |
| The chariot is the earliest and simplest type of carriage, used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples. Chariots were built in Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BC. The original chariot was a fast, light, open, two or four-wheeled c | chariot |
| many territories and people who are contolled by one government | empire |
| a time when there is so little food that many people starve | famine |
| an ancient region arouund southeastern Mesopotamia and between the tigris and Euphrates rivers; now present-day Iraq | Babylonia |
| a city with it's own tradtions and it's own tradtions and it's own government and laws; both a city and a separate independent state | city-state |
| the scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs | diaspora |
| a binding agreement | covenant |
| the belief in many gods | polythesim |
| many territories and people who are contolled by one government | empire |
| Sargon the Sorcerer, comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941 | sargon |
| a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people's beliefs | myth |
| a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a langugage | alaphabet |
| a professional writer | scribe |
| king of babylon from about 1792 to 1750 b.c creator of the Babylonian empire; established one of the oldest codes of law | Hammurabie |
| an organized list of laws or rules | code |
| a region occupied by the ancient Isralites, also known as Palestine, located between the Jorden River, Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, on a site that includes present-day Isral and part of Jorden | Canaan |
| is a term used in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and is regarded by many scholars as being synonymous with the Israelites. | Hebrews |
| a temple of the ancient Summerians and Babylonians, made of terraces connected by ramps and stairs, roughly in the shape of a pyramid | Ziggurat |
| to force someone to live in anthor country | exile |
| a religious leader who told the Issraelites what God wanted them to do | prophet |
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