Transcript Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient
Mesopotamia
TOP ’50’
VOCABULARY
“PEOPLE /PLACES/THINGS”
PEOPLE
Warrior who founded the Akkadian
Empire and so became the first ruler of
an empire in the Fertile Crescent
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 Sargon
the Great
PEOPLE
Became the world’s first trading
empire around the Mediterranean Sea;
Tyre was the major city located in
present-day Lebanon; created an
alphabet of 22 symbols
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 Phoenicians
PEOPLE
Only woman judge of the Israelite
nation and prophet of the Old
Testament—fought against the
Canaanites
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 Deborah
PEOPLE
 King
of the New Babylonian
Empire --- known as the reign of
the Chaldeans
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 Nebuchadnezzar
II
PEOPLE
Israelite leader that led the Hebrews from
Egypt to the ‘promised land’ of Canaan;
received the Ten Commandments from
Jehovah, God on Mt. Sinai
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 Moses
PLACES
 The
name of the Southern half of
the kingdom of the Israelites--Jerusalem was its capital city.
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 Judah
(Judea)
PLACES
A
historical kingdom of northern
Mesopotamia around present-day
northern Iraq and Turkey---Nineveh
was its capital city; very warlike and
invented the battering ram
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 Assyria
PLACES
A country in southwest Asia (Middle
East) and became the chosen people of
Jehovah, God in the Old Testament.
(monotheistic)
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 Israel
PLACES
A
historical and Biblical area
around Palestine; the enemies of
the Israelite nation
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 Canaan
PLACES
An ancient region around southwestern
Mesopotamia and between the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers---now present-day
Iraq
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 Babylon
(Babylonia)
PLACES
 The
site of the earliest known
civilization—located in Mesopotamia
(present-day southern Iraq); later
became Babylonia; builder of the
ziggurats
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 Sumer
THINGS
 Form
of wedge-shaped writing
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 Cuneiform
THINGS
A
market selling different kinds of
goods
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 bazaar
THINGS
A
city that governs itself as well as
its surrounding countryside.
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 city-state
THINGS
 More
of a thing or product than is
needed
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 surplus
THINGS
A
solemn agreement between two
or more parties
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 covenant
THINGS
A
group or class of people with
similar backgrounds, wealth, and
ways of living
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 social
class
THINGS
A
very great shortage of food
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 famine
THINGS
A
government headed by one ruler,
usually a king or queen
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 monarchy
THINGS
 An
empire under the Chaldeans
whose emperor was Nebuchadnezzar
II that rebuilt Babylon with a gigantic
palace and hanging gardens.
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 New
Babylonian Empire
THINGS
The scattering of people who have a
common background or beliefs---usually
refers to the scattering of the Jewish
people from Israel in AD70 by the
Romans.
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 diaspora
THINGS
 To
tame animals and raise them to
be used by humans
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 domesticate
THINGS
 To
force someone to live in another
country
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 exile