Chapter 2, the Fertile Crescent
Terms
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- SCRIBES
- Professional writers and the only people in the land who could keep records for the kings and priests.
- MESOPOTAMIA
- The land between the rivers.
- CITY-STATE
- This is when each city acted as its own state with its own government and king.
- POLYTHEISM
- The belief in many gods.
- MYTHS
- Stories about gods that explain people's beliefs and warn that the gods would punish people who angered them.
- EMPIRE
- An area of many territories and people that are controlled by one government.
- CARAVANS
- Groups of travelers
- BAZAAR
- Market
- CODE
- A written organized list of laws.
- CUNEIFORM
- Groups of wedges and lines forming a script that could be used to represent language(s).
- ALPHABET
- A set of symbols that represented the sounds of language. In the Phoenician alphabet, there are 22 letters, each standing for 1 consonant.
- MONOTHEISM
- Belief in one God
- FAMINE
- A time when there is little food and people starve.
- EXILE
- To do this means to force people to live in another country.
- COVENANT
- A binding agreement
- PROPHET
- Religious leaders.
- DIASPORA
- Scattering of people