| A | B |
|---|
| Hammurabi | Babylonian King who wrote a code of law |
| Hebrews | first monotheistic people |
| Phoenicians | Trading and seafaring people that developed the first alphabet |
| Theocracy | Government that combines political and religous leadership |
| Fertile Crescent | Mid East Region where Civilization began |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Middle East | Crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian wedge shaped writing |
| Sumerians | First advanced civilization |
| artisan | is skilled in a craft |
| Polytheism | Worship many gods, practiced by most early civilizations |
| Specialization | Occurs when farmers are able to produce a surplus of food which allows others to take up other occupations |
| Civilizations Emerge | 8,000-1,000 B.C. |
| sailboat, a calendar, plow, arch, wheel | all sumerian inventions |
| Scribe | a Writing Specialist |
| Hammurabi's Code | Code of law which had punishments for each crime and punished people of different classes differently |
| trade was important in ancient times... | people could obtain resources they did not readily have & cultural diffusion |
| written code of law | possibly Hammurabi's greatest achievment |
| religion & government combined | in most early civilizations |
| 2 major river systems in Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent | Tigris & Euphrates |
| Sumeria was located in modern-day | Iraq |
| Egyptian king/queen | pharoah |
| papyrus | paper-like substance that Egyptians wrote on |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing form |
| all ways to avoid massive flooding | dikes, dams, levees, canals, |
| 10 Commandments and Hammurabi's Code were important because | they were both a moral and legal code for everyday life |
| dynasties | ruling families |
| spread/exchange of culture between civlizations | cultural diffusion |
| polytheistic | most early civilizations were... |
| From here downward is the review for your Second Quiz on Middle Eastern Civilizations... | . |
| WD-MONOTHEISM | The belief in one god |
| WD-POLYTHEISM | The belife in more than one god |
| WD-ECONOMY | The way in which people use their environment to meet their material needs |
| The Hebrews journey home to Canaan from Egpyt, led by Moses is called an | exodus |
| When the Babylonians captured the Hebrews in Canaan and sent them to Babylon to be slaves is called an | exile |
| When the Romans forced the Hebrews to leave their homeland to wander with no permanent homeland is called | a diaspora |
| WD-JUDAISM | The religion of the Hebrews |
| The Hebrews settled.... | between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Israel |
| The Phoenicians settled... | along the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Hebrews, in present-day Lebanon |
| AND.... all of you need to study your maps for this quiz as well!!!! | .. |
