| A | B |
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| Scribe | a person who was trained to read and write |
| City-state | a city that functioned as a state |
| Polytheism | belief in many gods |
| Myth | a story about gods |
| Sumer | an ancient city-state in Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia | the region between the Tigris and Euphates Rivers |
| Fertile Crescent | A large area of fertile land that stretched from the the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf |
| Tigris River | A friver that flowed along the northeast boundary of Mesopotamia |
| Euphrates River | a river that flowed along the southwest boundary of Mesopotamia |
| Code | an organized list of laws |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian writing, based on wedges and lines |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian king who established a code of laws |
| Alphabet | a set of symbols that represent sounds of a language |
| Monotheism | belief in on God |
| Famine | a time when people starve because there is little food |
| Exile | to force people to live in another country |
| Moses | Israelite hero who led his people out of slavery |
| Phoenicia | An empire that became a great trading power along the Mediterranean and beyond |
| Canaan | A area of land many Israelites left because of famine; they later returned and reclaimed their land |
| Jerusalem | the capital city of the Israelites |
| Israel | a kingdom composed of the 12 united Israelite tribes |
| Judah | the souther portion of the kingdom of Israel |
| Covenant | a binding agreement |
| Prophet | one of the religious leaders who told the Israelites what God wanted them to do |
| Disapora | a scattering of people |
| Abraham | Israelite prophet who made a covenant with God |
| Deborah | an important female Israelite judge and leader |
| Empire | Many terrirories & people who are controlled by one Gov't. |
| Caravan | A group of travelers |
| Bazaar | market |
| Babylonia | one of the most important Mesopotamian empires; in the city of Babylon was the center of the empire |
| Assyria | one of the most important Mesopotamian empires; its capital was Nineveh |
| New Babylonian Empire | the second Babylonian empire that arose under the Chaldeans |
| Nebuchnadnezzar II | the Chaldean king who rebuilt the city of Babylon and declared himself king |
