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Chapt.2 WorldHistory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One of the tribes that attacked Mesopotamia | Indo-Europeans |
| A Hebrew religion | Judaism |
| Most sacred text of Judaism | Torah |
| Arid grasslands, north of the black sea, driven out by drought or lack of resources | steppes |
| The most famous Chaldean King | Nebuchadnezzar ll |
| a Hebrew sheperd that lived near Ur in Mesopotamia | Abraham |
| a solemn promise | covenant |
| ancestral fathers | patriarch |
| israelite leader | Moses |
| journey to lead israelites out of Egypt | Exodus |
| scattering of Jews outside Judah | Diaspora |
| the belief in one god | monotheism |
| curves between the Mediterranean sea and Persin Gulf | fertile crescent |
| the area between the Tigris and Euphrates | Mesopotamia |
| a Sumerian temple that was dedicated to the chief god or goddess of that area | Ziggurat |
| a political unit with its own government | city-state |
| the worship of many gods | polytheism |
| a series of rulers from one family | dynasty |
| Sumerian writing written on clay tablets | cuneiform |
| an Akkadian ruler, he was the first ruler to create a permanent army | Sargon |
| Amorite king who became king of Babylon | Hammurabi |
| a Persian king that led a revolt against the Medes | Cyrus the Great |
| became new Persian leader after cambyses | Darius l |
| governers chosen by Darius l | Satrap |
| Son of Darius l | Xerxes |
| Creater of a new Persian religion called Zoroastrianism | Zoroaster |
| belief that the world was controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil | Dualism |