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Ch. 2 The Fertile Crescent/ Ancient Mesopotamia
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Fertile Crescent Empires
Mediterranean Civilizations
Judaism
Legacy of Mesopotamia
Land Between Two Rivers
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The two special attractions that drew people to
live in Mesopotamia.
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What are rich soil life-giving rivers?
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The word Mesopotamia comes from Greek words
that mean this.
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What is land between the rivers? Tigris
Euphrates
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This type of religion believes in honoring
worshipping many gods.
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What is polytheism? This religion was first
practiced in the city of Sumer.
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This profession had a special school to learn
cuneiform writing from age 8. The training took
10 years.
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What is a scribe? Scribes used a stylus clay
tablets to keep records for kings priests.
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The cities in Sumer were separated by lots of
desert land. Thus, this type of government
evolved.
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What is a city-state? City-states had their own
special god or goddess, its own government, its
own army its own king.
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This means many territories people are
controlled by one government.
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What is an empire?
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This means groups of travelers traveling
together for safety trade .
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What is a caravan?
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This city became an important trade center
because...
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What is Babylon? Babylons central location was
advantageous because it had cities to its north
south.
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This is an ancient Persian religion.
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What is Zoroastrianism? The Persians were known
for a culture that was rich as well as tolerant
of civilization of conquered peoples.
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Through conquest trade the Persians passed on
these three influences.
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• What is
• spread their religion
• their system of bureaucracy
• Babylonian science?

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The king of Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 B.C.
creator of the Babylonian Empire.
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Who is Hammurabi?
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This was significant because for the first time,
laws were written down for the public to see
understand.
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What is Hammurabis Code?
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Scribes went to school for ten years to learn to
combine these symbols to make groups of wedges
lines in this system of writing.
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What is cuneiform writing?
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One of the more famous laws of Hammurabi that
swayed the public from this severe punishment. It
meant that the punishment should fit the crime.
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What is an eye for an eye?
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Hammurabis Code was not equal for all people in
this way.
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What is the harshness of the punishment depended
on how important the victim the lawbreaker
were? That is their social class influenced the
punishment.
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This is the belief in one god.
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What is monotheism?
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This is a time when there is so little food that
many people starve.
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What is a famine?
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This is to force someone to live in another
country.
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What is exile?
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Learning this new system of writing made it
easier for people all around the ancient world of
the Mediterranean.
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What is the Phoenician alphabet? Each letter
represented a sound.
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This is what the Israelites were known for what
made them unique.
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What is worshipping one God, being
monotheistic? Throughout history sadly, the
Jewish people have been exiled not tolerated by
many civilizations.
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The reason Phoenicia became a thriving wealthy
region.
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What is the Phoenicians sold the royal dyed
purple cloth and cedar wood all around the
Mediterranean Sea?
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This was a major event in the history of the
Israelites.
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What is the settlement of Canaan?
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These two groups of people destroyed the Assyrian
Empire in 612 B.C.
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Who are the Medes Chaldeans?
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These laws are the core beliefs of Judaism.
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What are the Ten Commandments?
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This empire made the Jews scatter throughout the
land into many Jewish settlements.
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What is Diaspora? Thus, wherever they settled,
the Jews preserved their heritage by living
together in close communities following their
TRADITIONS.
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Judaism had an important influence on these two
later religions. Name them give two traits.
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• What are Christianity Islam?
• Both began in same geographical area.
• Both were monotheistic
• All honor Abraham, Moses, the prophets.