| A | B |
| exodus | road out |
| convenant | solemn agreement |
| monotheism | believing in one god |
| prophet | religious leader who speaks out against wrongdoing and warns that punishment will come to those who break God's law |
| Yahweh | one supreme God |
| Torah | first five books of Bible |
| cavalry | mounted soldiers |
| aqueduct | large stone canals which brought water from the mountain streams |
| commerce | the buying, selling,and transportation of products |
| colony | settlements in new territories ruled by the government in a different country |
| tax | money paid to whatever foreign ruler held power over them at the time |
| city-state | a city that governs itself as well as its surrounding countryside |
| province | a division of a country |