| A | B |
|---|
| Monotheism | Belief in one god |
| Polytheism | Belief in many gods |
| Specialized Labor | Focusing on one type of labor rather than doing lots of different types of work that were based around survival |
| The Phoenicians | civilization of sea-traders on the Mediterranean Coast |
| The Ten Commandments | from the Hebrews, and Moses this described moral and religious conduct |
| Mesopotamia | "The land between the two Rivers" |
| Artisans | people skilled in a particular craft |
| Cuneiform | the earliest writing system created by the Sumerians |
| The earliest written law code from Ancient Babylon | Code of Hammurabi |
| City-State | political unit typically with a walled city and the farmland that surrounded it |
| Abraham | Man who is credited with founding Judaism |
| The alphabet | the greatest contribution made by the Phoenicians |
| The Hebrews | The group who founded the first monotheisic religion |
| The exchange of ideas and technology from one civilization to another | cultural diffusion |
| Jerusalem | the captial of the Kingdom of Israel constructed by David |
| The Diaspora | means "the scattering" and represents the state that the Hebrews lived in after being forced out of their homeland |
| Pictograms | a writing system where pictures or symbols represent entire word or ideasideas |
| the philosophy of justice put forth by the Code of Hammurabi | "Eye for an Eye" |
| The social structure of most early river civilizations | rigid with very little movement between classes |
| The people with the lowest status in early river civilizations | slaves |
