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Chapter 2
Key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A large band of fertile land form an oasis in the midst of desert and mountains. | Fertile Crescent |
| The area between the tigris and euphrates | mesopotamia |
| A puramid shape structures | Ziggurat |
| A political unitl with its own government | City states |
| A worship of many gods | Polytheism |
| A series of rulers from one family | Dynasty |
| Sumeria writing | Cuneiform |
| Created the first permanent army the first ruler to do so | Sargon |
| was king of Babylon 1792 BC | Hammurabi |
| A group of semi- Nordic people who migrated from south Russia | Indo- Europeans |
| Arid Grassland | steppes |
| The most famous chaldeon king | Nebuchadnezzar 2 |
| A religious mostly in Isarl people are called Jews | Judaism |
| Hebrew Bible, the most scares text of Judaism | Torah |
| A shepherd, that lived near or in Mesopotamia | Abraham |
| A solemn promise | Covenant |
| Ancestral "fathers" | Patriarch |
| A leader that lead the Jews out of Egypt | Moses |
| The Journey that lead the jews out of egypt | Exodus |
| The scalloping of Jews outside Judah | Diaspora |
| A new leader among the persion | Cyrus the Great |
| After cambyses death a new leader named Dairus came amoung the persia | Darius |
| A governor of ancient persia | Satrap |
| the son of Darius.He followed his dads foot steps | Xerxes |
| Zoroaster teached the knowlege and the religon of Zoroastrianism | Zoroaster |
| the belief that the world is controlled by good and bad | Dualism |