River Valley - Mesopotamia

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A city, including all the farmland and villages surrounding it, that is also a separate, independent state. (Highly populated area of culture.)

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City-State

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The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus

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Moses

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One of the first examples of written law in the ancient world. It was posted by a king in the Babylonian Empire.

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Code of Hammurabi

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Groups of symbols that were lines and clay wedge shapes; it was used to write many languages in the Fertile Crescent.

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Cuneiform

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Many territories and peoples controlled by one government (usually using military power)

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Empire

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A large pyramid like temple used in ancient Sumer.

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Ziggurat

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What is anti-Semitism?

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Hostility or prejudice against Jews

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Large Muslim empire that was broken up after WWI

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Ottoman

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Founder of Judaism who, according to the Bible, led his family from Ur to Canaan in obedience to God's command. (Also the father of Christianity and Islam.)

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Abraham

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Belief in more than one god.

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Polytheism