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The belief in many gods
What is polytheism
A time when people starve because there is so little food
What is famine
The belief in one god
What is monotheism
Many territories and people who are controlled by one government
What is Empire
A story that explains people’s beliefs
What is myth
A group of travelers journeying together is called a
What is a caravan
Symbols for writing that represent sounds are called
What is an alphabet
In Mesopotamia, people eventually combined symbols into a script known as
Cuneiform
A binding agreement
What is a covenant
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
What is Diaspora
Mesopotamia means
What is land between two rivers
Mesopotamia was located on land between
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
The name given to the ancient civilization in the southern end of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
The region know as the Fertile Crescent, containing Mesopotamia, stretched from
What is the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia was know for all the following Except Fertile farmland between two rivers The first cities Hammurabi’s Code The pyramids of the pharaohs
What is the pyramids of the pharaohs
The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to
What is learn to read and write
What two items helped Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy region
What is wood and purple dyed cloth
As a a result of the Phoenician trade routes, their culture was diffused throughout
What is the Mediterranean Sea
The Phoenicians invented this, a version is used every day by people in the United States
What is an alphabet
The most important city in ancient Phonenicia
What is Tyre or Sidon
Name of early Israelites
What are Hebrews
Called the Father of Israelites
Who is Abraham
How was the Israelites’ faith different form most of Mesopotamia
What was practice Monotheism
The book that set out the many laws for the Israelites
What is the Torah
The Romans drove the Israelites away from their homeland, they scattered all over the world.
What is Diaspora
Final Jeopardy Make your wager
What did the Persians spread through conquest and trade?
What is religion, a system of bureaucracy, and Babylonian science