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- covenant
- an agreement
- Ashurbanipal
- last great king of Assyria
- Ark Of The Covenent
- a golden chest carried by the hebrews, made to contain the pieces of the stone tablets on which God wrote the ten commandament
- The Dead Sea
- a salt lake between israel and jordan in the middle east.It is 1378 ft below sea level and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the earth on dry land.The dead sea is 1083 ft deep,and is 8.6 times saltier than the ocean.Its main tributary is the jordan river.The bible cities of sodom and Gomorrah are said to be at the bottom of the dead sea and a human sized pillar of salt near the shore is said to be the body of lots wife who was turned into a pillar of salt after she turned back to see the destruction of the cities by God.
- Monotheism
- the belief in only ONE GOD ,practiced by the hebrews
- Judaism
- the religon of the jewish people
- HEBREWS
- nomads from cannan that were forced into slavery in Egypt by a severe drought in their native land
- Moses
- led the Hebrews out of Egypt about 1,250 B.C., they wandered in the desert for 40 years before coming back to cannan
- barter
- the exchange of one good or service for another
- Ten Commandments
- a set of laws, for responsable behavoir, which according to the bible, were given to moses by god
- Torah
- Jewish scriptures; the first 5 books of the bible
- Ashurbanipal's library
- first unknown library contained 22,00 clay stone tablets sumerian cuneiform; destroyed when the medes destroyed the city of Nineveh
- Assyrians
- traders and fierce warriors,conquered most of the fertile cresent and established their capital at Nineveh
- KING SAUL,KING DAVID,and KING SOLOMON
- three greatest hebrew kings