Gr 7 History Ch 2 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| cuneiform | wedge-shaped writing |
| polytheist | one who worships many gods |
| monotheist | one who worships only one god |
| humanist | one who makes men into gods |
| Anu | the god of the sky |
| ziggurat | a tower built in tiers or stages, each stage smaller than the one beneath, all atop a large mound of clay or debris |
| Nanna | the moon god that supposedly owned the city of Ur |
| empire | rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples |
| bureaucracy | a group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern |
| Shamash | the sun god who supposedly gave Hammurabi the authority to make his code of laws |
| laws | rules people follow in living together |
| promulgation | making the laws known |
| equality under the law | all people who commit the same crime should be punished in the same way |
| Marduk | the chief god of Babylon who became the king of all the gods |
| nation-state | a nation or people living in its own land with its own government |
| Baal | the chief god of the Canaanites |
| dispersion | the scattering of people over the earth |
| Israel's conquest of Canaan | Canaan, the center of the Ancient World, has had a central and strategic position in the world; Israel became a nation-state |
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