ABeka History 7 - Unit 1, Chap. 2 Bold Words
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- nomads (p. 23)
- wandering herdsmen with no permanent home
- Joseph (p. 23)
- Jacob's favorite son; sold into slavery by his brothers
- Sargon (p. 16)
- the Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerians
- monotheist (p. 17)
- worshiper of one god
- polytheist (p. 17)
- worshiper of many gods
- Mesopotamia (p. 16)
- 180,000 square mile area between and immediately around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- Anu (p. 18)
- the Sumerian god of the sky; ruled over their other gods
- empire (p. 19)
- rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples
- Abraham (p. 12)
- the father of the nation of Israel
- Middle East (p. 12)
- where Africa, Asia and Europe meet
- cuneiform (p. 17)
- a wedge-shaped writing used in the Middle East
- humanists (p. 18)
- elevate men to the status of a god
- King Ur-Nammu (p. 18)
- king of Ur
- Babylon (p. 19)
- the city of the original tower of Babel
- Babylonia (p. 19)
- Sumer and the surrounding lands
- Shamash (p. 20)
- the sun god
- laws (p. 20)
- rules people follow in living together
- promulgation (p. 20)
- making the laws known
- Inanna (p. 21)
- Sumerian goddess of love
- Marduk (p. 21)
- the chief god of the city of Babylon
- Baal (p. 22)
- the chief god of the Canaanites
- Ishtar (p. 21)
- another name for the Sumerian goddess of love, Inanna
- Hammurabi (p. 19)
- king of Babylon; united all of Mesopotamia under his rule
- ziggurats (p. 18)
- towers built in tiers or stages, each stage smaller than the one beneath, all atop a large mound of clay or debris
- bureaucracy (p. 19)
- an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern
- equality under the law (p. 21)
- all people who commit the same crime should be punished in the same way
- Canaan (p. 22)
- the land to which God led Abraham; located at the western end of the fertile crescent beside the Mediterranean Sea; known as the center of the ancient world
- Megiddo or Armageddon (p. 22)
- a valley in Israel, known as the last battelground of world history
- Patriarchs (p. 22)
- Abraham, his son Isaac, and his grandson Jacob, who lived in Canaan for a total of 230 years; known as the founding fathers of Israel; God's promises to Abraham passed first to Isaac and then to Jacob
- nation-state (p. 22)
- a nation or a people living in its own land with its own government
- Sumerians
- the first people after the flood to have used writing