Chapter 2 Fertile Crescent Review

In the Arabian Desert

In present-day Egypt

Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Persian Empire

Babylonian Empire

Assyrian Empire

Persian Empire

Babylonian Empire

Assyrian Empire

Persian Empire

Babylonian Empire

Assyrian Empire

David

Solomon

Abraham

Saul

Moses

Judah

It was the first written set of laws that told the people of Babylonia how to behave and settle conflicts.

It was a set of scrolls that helped historians reconstruct the early history of the Israelites.

It was a set of rules given to Moses on Mount Sinai that told the Israelites how to live and worship God.

They were sea traders who built boats and traded purple dye from snails, brought valuable goods back home, and invented an alphabet

They built caravans that could travel long ways through the desert and they traded silk made from silkworms.

They built an impressive road system that allowed neighboring people to travel to Tyre to trade goods.

Monotheism, believed God knows everything, is everywhere, and has complete power, believed they were God’s chosen people, believed in the 10 Commandments.

Polytheism, each city-state had its own god or goddess, they worshipped in temples, offered huge plates of food to the gods.

Monotheism, washed the statues of their god, held religious ceremonies in ziggurats

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polytheism

covenant

bazaar