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Mesopotamia T-2
Mr. Blanchette's class T-2 Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dead sea | A salt lake between isreal and Jordan; the Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth |
| Persian Gulf | an arm of the Arabian Sea, located between the Arabian Peninsula andsouthwest Iran |
| Nineveh | |
| Tyre | A rich tradeport and the major city of Phoenicia, located on the eastern mediterranean Sea in present day southern lebanon |
| Euphrates River | a river flowing south from Turkey through Syria and Iraq |
| covenant | binding agreement |
| empire | many territories and people who are controlled by one government |
| myth | a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people's beliefs |
| Isreal | A country in southwest Asia |
| Phoenicans | |
| Zagros Mountains | |
| code | an organized list of laws or rules |
| hebrews | |
| exile | to be forced to live in another country |
| King David | |
| Mesopotamia | an ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southwest Asia |
| Sumer | the first known civilization |
| Cuneiform | a form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the fertile cresent |
| Diaspora | The scattering of people |
| Caravan | a group of traders traveling together |
| Bazaar | market |
| Famine | A time when there is so little food and many people starve |
| Scribe | a writer who usually used a reed and clay to write |
| Prophet | a religious leader who told the Isrealites what god wanted them to do |
| Solomen | |
| Jordan River | A river in Iraq and Turkey |
| Black Sea | |
| mesopotamia | an ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southwest Asia |
| abraham | led his family to canaan, where he became the founer of a new nation |
| moses | developed monothesium |
| Tigris river | A river in Iraq and Turkey |
| chariot | |
| babylon | an ancient region around southeastern mesopotamia and between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; now present-day Iraq |
| Assyria | a historical kingdom of northern mesopotamia around present-day Iraq and Turkey |
| Ur | a city of ancient sumer in southern mesopotamia, located in present-day southeast Iraq |
| astronomy | the branch of scince that studies the planets, stars, moon, and other objects in the universe |
| Jerusalem | The capital city of modern Isreal; a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims |
| King Daniel | |
| epic of gilgamesh | |
| 10 commands | a code of laws given to the isrealites by god |
| Tributary | |
| empire | many territories and people who are controlled by one government |
| zigurrats | a step temple believed to be used by the gods to descend to the earth |
| Sargon | the first ruler of the Akkadian empire |
| Hammurahbi | the first ruler of babylon |
| alphabet | a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language |
| city-state | a city with it's own traditions, government and laws; both a city and a seperate independant state |
| monothesiem | belief in many gods |
| polythesium | belief in one god |
| Peninsula | a piece of land surrounded almost completly with water and connected to the mainland by an isthmus |
| dead sea scrolls | ancient parchment manuscripts containing the earliest version of the first few books of the bible |
| Sani peninsula | a peninsula on the northern end of the red sea that links southwest Asia with northeast Africa |
| Canal | a waterway dug into the earth or modified by people to transport water or people, or provide drainage |
| confluence | |
| Tarus Mountains | A set of mountains locaed in modern day Turkey |
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