ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
This is a vocab review on Mesopotamia. It containes vocab on people and things 1.
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- nomad
- a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
- alphabet
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- canal
- long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
- irrigation
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- monotheism
- belief in a single God
- labor
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- dikes
- a wall built to keep water out of a low-lying area
- ziggurat
- a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- exile
- the act of expelling a person from their native land
- polytheism
- belief in multiple Gods
- hammurabi
- a famous emperor of ancient Mesopotamia, ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
- archaeology
- The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
- cuneiform
- an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
- prophet
- an authoritative person who divines the future
- deborah
- 1100 B. C. judge and prophet of the old testament; started a war against the Canaanites
- Phoenicians
- Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast
- Nebuchadnezzar 2
- a gret king in the middle east
- sargon
- Built history's first empire by conquering all the Sumerian cities
- monarchy
- an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
- moses
- Prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
- surplus
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- abraham
- Founder of Judaism who, according to the Bible, led his family from Ur to Canaan in obedience to God's command.
- scribe
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- agriculture
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
- covenant
- an agreement