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Chapter 2 Definition
Key Terms And People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fertile land that curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf? | Fertile Crescent |
| The area that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates river in Southwest Asia? | Mesopotamia |
| A Summerian temple made of sun-dried brick? | Ziggurat |
| A political unit with its own government? | City-State |
| The belief in many Gods? | Polytheism |
| A series of rulers from one family? | Dynasty |
| Sumerian writing? | Cuneiform |
| Became king of Babylon.He was a brillant warrior and united all of Mespotamia in what became known as the Babylonian Empire? | Hammurabi |
| Several tribes that spoke related languages? | Indo-Europeans |
| Arid grasslands? | Steppes |
| The most famous Chaldean king was known as a warrior and a builde. He fought Europeans and Jews and took many to Babylon as slaves? | Nebuchadnezzar II |
| A monotheistia religon originating with the Israelites,tracing its orgin to Abraham,and having its spirtual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Hebrew scriptures and Talmud? | Judaism |
| The first 5 books of the Hebrew bible. The most scared text of Judaism? | Torah |
| A brinching agreement? | Covenant |
| An ancestral "father" of Judaism? | Patriarch |
| The escape of Hebrews from Egypt? | Exodus |
| Hebrew prophet and lawgiver. he led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and back to Canaan in the Exodus. | Moses |
| The scattering of the Jewa outside Judan? | Diaspora |
| He defeated the Median army and united the Persian King and the medes under his rule. | Cyrus The Great |
| The new leader for Persia. He had to fight to restore order in Persia. Many people didnt like him and fought to keep him off the throne? | Darius I |
| Governors of ancient Persia? | Satraps |
| King of Persia, his armies invaded Greece but eventually were defeated by the Greeks? | Xerxes |
| The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good or evil? | Dualism |
| Religous teacher and prophet of ancient Persia; he founded a religon known as Zoroastrianism based on the idea that people have free will and can act as they choose? | Zoroaster |
| He was a shephard? | Abraham |
| Was the Akkadia ruler that created a permanent army and the first ruler to do so? | Sargon |
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