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mesapotamia

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archives   a place where public records or other historical documents are kept  
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Jerusalum   The capital city of modern Israel; a holy city of Jews, Christians and muslums  
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assyrians   people from assyria  
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battering ram   an ancient military divice with a heavy horizantle ram for battering down walls  
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coverant   a building agreement  
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King David   king of the isrelites fter saul  
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UR   A city of ancient sumer in southern meesapotamia, located in present day southeast iraq  
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Ziggurat   a reigion occupied by the ancient israelites, also known as plantine, located between the jordan river, mediteranean sea and the Dead Sea, one a ite that includes present day isreal and part of jorddan river  
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chariot   The chariot is the earlist and simplist tyee off carrige  
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phoenician   a native or inhabitant  
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nineveh   capital of assyria  
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empire   a group of nations or peoples ruled over by one an empire  
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phoenicians   a native or inhabitant  
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israel   the country in southwest asia  
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hebrews   the Jewish people; the tribe the Jewish people came from  
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exile   to force someone to live in another country  
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canaan   a religion occupied by the ancient Israelite' also known as Palestine, located between the Jordan river, mediterainian sea and the dead sea, on a site that includes present day Israel and part of Jordan  
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monotheisum   the belief in god  
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prophet   a religious leader who told the Israelites when what god wanted them to do  
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Epic of Gilgamesh   a very long story about a sumerian hero  
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babylon   center of the babylonian empire  
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confluence   where one or more riverns meat  
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tributary   feeder river; river that feeds into a large river  
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cuneiform   a form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the fertile cresent  
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diaspora   the scattering of people who have common backgrounds or beliefs  
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caravan   a group of traders traveling together  
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bazaar   a market selling different kinds of goods  
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famine   the time when there is so little food that many people starve  
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nebuchadezzer   king of new babylonian empire from 605 to 561 bc  
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assyria   a historical kingdom of northern mesapotamia around present day iraq and turkey  
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polytheisum   the beliefs in many gods  
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saragon   king of assyria, conquered babylonia and founded the last great assyriam dynasty  
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scribe   a proffectional writer  
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moses   israelite leader; led the israelites from egypt to canaan; according to the bible' he received the tem commandments from god  
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