| A | B |
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| scribe | a professional writer |
| city-state | a city with its own traditions, government and laws |
| polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| myth | stories about gods that explain people's beliefs |
| Sumer | located in Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia | located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Part of the fertile crescent. |
| bazaar | (markets) or the place where cotton cloth and spices were sold |
| Babylon | The capital of an empire that stretched from present-day Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
| empire | a government where many territories and people are controlled by one government |
| Nebuchadnezzar II | ruler of Babylon during the Chaldeon dynasty |
| caravan | this travels between cities in order to trade goods |
| New Babylonian empire | center of learning and science |
| King Hammurabi | King of the city-state Babylon |
| Assyria | region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
| code | organized list of laws to make sure laws are applied fairly to all |
| cuneiform | script made of groups of wedges and lines |
| alphabet | set of symbols that represented the sounds of the language |
| monotheism | a belief in one god |
| famine | a time when there is so little food that many people starve |
| exile | to force prople of one country to live in another country |
| Moses | an Israelite leader who led his enslaved prople out of Egypt |
| Jerusalem | the capital city of the Israelites |
| Israel | the nation of the 12 united Israelite tribes |
| Sidon | capitol city of Phoenicia |
| covenant | a binding agreement |
| prophet | religious leaders who told the people to obey Gods laws |
| diaspora | scattering of people |
| Abraham | Leader of the Israelites |
| Deborah | female Israelite judge who gained respect and honor |
