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Chapter 2

Key terms and people

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The area between the tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia.
A sumerian temple made of sun dried brick that was dedicated to the cheif god or goddess of a particular city-state. ziggurat.
A political unit with its own government. City-state.
The worship of many gods. Polytheisan
Sumerian writing. Cureiform
A family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary. Dynasty.
A groupe of semi-nomadic people who migrated from southern Russia to the Indian subcontinent around 1700 BC. Indo-Europeans.
Arid grasslands. Steppes.
A monotheistic religion originating with the Israelites tracing its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodies chiefly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud. Judaism.
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible; the most sacred texts in all of the Jewish faith. Torah.
Solem promise Convenant.
an ancestral "father" of judaism. Patriarch.
A journey in which Moses led the Israelities out of Egypt. Exodus.
The scattering of Jews outside Judah Disporah.
The belif in one god. monotheism.
Governers of ancient Persia Satraps.
The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces good and evil. Dualism.
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