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a region of rich farmland fertile cresent
the area that lies between the tigris and euphrates rivers in southwest asia mesoptamia
a summerain temple made of sun-dried brick that was dedicated to the cheif God or Godess of a particular city-state ziggurat
a political unit that includes az town or a city and the surronding land controlled by it city-state
the belief in many gods polytheism
a family of rulers whose righgt to rule is hereditary dynasty
cuneiform sumerian writing
created a permanet army was the first to do so Sargon
the king of babylon Hammurabi
the tribe who invaded mesopotamia indo-europeans
srid grasslands steppes
the most famous chaldean king known as both a warrior and a builder Nebuchadnezzar II
The laws and requirements of of the hebrew religion judaism
the most sacred text of judaism Torah
a man the torah traces the Hebrews back to. and a sheperd that lived near ur in Mesopotamia Abraham
a solemn promise covenant
ancestral fathers patriarchs
the leader of some slaves in Egypt Moses
the journey that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt the Exodus
the scattering of jews outside of judah Diaspora
the belief in one God monotheism
the leader among the Persiansian in 559 BC Cyrus the Great
many persians didnt like him and fought to keep him of the throne Darius I
the govenors that Darius chose satraps
the son of Darius I Xerxes
zoroastrian was based on the teaching of a man names zoroaster
the belief that the world is two controlled by two opposing forces good and evil dualism
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