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Flashcards by scarlett khadzhi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by scarlett khadzhi
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| what happened to abraham at about 2000 b.c? | God called him to go to Cannan |
| who was sargon? | sargon the akkadian king who conquered the sumerians |
| who were the sumerians? | the sumerians were desendants of people who stayed in babylon after the dispersion and most likey desendents of nimrod who was a desendant of ham so the sumerians were Hamitic people |
| what did hammurabi do? | hammarabi conquered all of mesopotamia in just 31 years |
| who were the patriorts? | abraham, isaac, and jacob |
| what three touching countrys form the middle east? | asia, africa, and europe |
| what is the most imortant citie in sumer? | ur |
| why is the fertile cresant known as the fertile cresant? | because the two surounding rivers (euphrates amd tiger) two rivers in the dessert ant in between the rivers the land is formed as a cresent moon and the land is fertile |
| what river means arrow? | the tigris river |
| what river means "that makes fruitfull" | the euphrates river |
| where is mesopatamia? | in the fertile cresant between the tigris and euphrates river |
| where is canaan? | on the south east side of the mediterranian sea |
| why is megiddo important? | because the last battle of world history will be there |
| what is a cuniform? | an ancient wedge shaped writing |
| what is a polytheist? | a believer of many gods |
| what is a monotheist? | a believer of one god |
| what is a humanist? | someone who puts man higher than God |
| who is anu? | in sumerian religion the sky god |
| what is a ziggurat? | towers built into tiers or stages |
| who is nanna? | in sumerian religion the moon goddess |
| what is an empire? | rule by one city or people over other cities or people |
| what is bureaucracy? | an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern |
| who is shamash? | the sun god in sumerian religion |
| what is law? | a set of rules for a group of people to follow |
| what is promulgation? | makeing laws known by writing then down and setting them where everyone can see them |
| what does equality under the law mean? | everyone gets punished the same way when commiting the same crime |
| who was morduk? | the chief god of the city of babylon |
| what is a nation state? | a natian or people living under there own lamd or goverment |
| who is baal? | was the chief god of the cananites |
| what does the dispertion mean? | the dispersion maed it hard for people to study history because everyone was spead out |
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