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Israelites
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The belief in many
gods
What is polytheism
A time when
people starve
because there is so
little food
What is famine
The belief in one
god
What is
monotheism
Many territories
and people who are
controlled by one
government
What is Empire
A story that
explains people’s
beliefs
What is myth
A group of
travelers
journeying together
is called a
What is a caravan
Symbols for
writing that
represent sounds
are called
What is an
alphabet
In Mesopotamia,
people eventually
combined symbols
into a script known
as
Cuneiform
A binding
agreement
What is a covenant
The scattering of
people who have a
common
background or
beliefs
What is Diaspora
Mesopotamia
means
What is land
between two rivers
Mesopotamia was
located on land
between
What is the Tigris
and Euphrates
rivers
The name given to
the ancient
civilization in the
southern end of
Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
The region know as
the Fertile Crescent,
containing
Mesopotamia,
stretched from
What is the
Mediterranean Sea
to the Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia was
know for all the
following Except
1. Fertile farmland between two rivers
2. The first cities
3. Hammurabi’s Code
4. The pyramids of the pharaohs
What is the
pyramids of the
pharaohs
The Phoenician
alphabet made it
easier for people in
the ancient world to
What is learn to
read and write
What two items
helped Phoenicia
become a thriving
and wealthy region
What is wood and
purple dyed cloth
As a a result of the
Phoenician trade
routes, their
culture was
diffused
throughout
What is the
Mediterranean Sea
The Phoenicians
invented this, a
version is used
every day by people
in the United States
What is an
alphabet
The most
important city in
ancient Phonenicia
What is Tyre or
Sidon
Name of early
Israelites
What are Hebrews
Called the Father of
Israelites
Who is Abraham
How was the
Israelites’ faith
different form most
of Mesopotamia
What was practice
Monotheism
The book that set
out the many laws
for the Israelites
What is the Torah
The Romans drove
the Israelites away
from their
homeland, they
scattered all over
the world.
What is Diaspora
Make your wager
What did the
Persians spread
through conquest
and trade?
What is religion, a
system of
bureaucracy, and
Babylonian science