| A | B |
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| scribes | professional writers |
| Mesopotamia | comes from the Greek word that means "between two rivers" |
| Fertile Crescent | a region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the world's 1st civilization |
| city-state | a city that is also separate, independent state |
| polytheism | a belief in many gods |
| myths | stories about gods that explain people's beliefs |
| empire | an area of many territories and peoples that is controlled by one government |
| Babylon | the center of the Babylonian empire |
| Caravans | a group of travelers |
| bazaars | markets where shoppers could buy cotton cloth from India and spices from Egypt |
| Zoroastrianism | an ancient Persian religion |
| code | organized list of laws |
| Hummurabi | ruled Babylonia created rules for everyone to follow called Hammurabi's Code |
| cuneiform | scribes combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines known as this |
| alphabet | a set of symbols that represents 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 | force people to live in another place or country |
| covenant | binding agreement |
| Moses | an Israelite leader who lived sometime around 1200 B.C. |
| prophets | religious teachers who are regarded as speaking for God |
| diaspora | the scattering of a group of people |
