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4. The belief in many gods

5. What is polytheism

6. A time when people starve because there is so little food

7. What is famine

8. The belief in one god

9. What is monotheism

10. Many territories and people who are controlled by one government

11. What is Empire

12. A story that explains people’s beliefs

13. What is myth

14. A group of travelers journeying together is called a

15. What is a caravan

16. Symbols for writing that represent sounds are called

17. What is an alphabet

18. In Mesopotamia, people eventually combined symbols into a script known as

19. Cuneiform

20. A binding agreement

21. What is a covenant

22. The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs

23. What is Diaspora

24. Mesopotamia means

25. What is land between two rivers

26. Mesopotamia was located on land between

27. What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

28. The name given to the ancient civilization in the southern end of Mesopotamia

29. What is Sumer

30. The region know as the Fertile Crescent, containing Mesopotamia, stretched from

31. What is the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

32. Mesopotamia was know for all the following Except
Fertile farmland between two rivers
The first cities
Hammurabi’s Code
The pyramids of the pharaohs

33. What is the pyramids of the pharaohs

34. The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to

35. What is learn to read and write

36. What two items helped Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy region

37. What is wood and purple dyed cloth

38. As a a result of the Phoenician trade routes, their culture was diffused throughout

39. What is the Mediterranean Sea

40. The Phoenicians invented this, a version is used every day by people in the United States

41. What is an alphabet

42. The most important city in ancient Phonenicia

43. What is Tyre or Sidon

44. Name of early Israelites

45. What are Hebrews

46. Called the Father of Israelites

47. Who is Abraham

48. How was the Israelites’ faith different form most of Mesopotamia

49. What was practice Monotheism

50. The book that set out the many laws for the Israelites

51. What is the Torah

52. The Romans drove the Israelites away from their homeland, they scattered all over the world.

53. What is Diaspora

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55. What did the Persians spread through conquest and trade?

56. What is religion, a system of bureaucracy, and Babylonian science