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from sumer to canaan
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- 1what happened to abraham at about 2000 b.c?God called him to go to Cannan
- 2who was sargon?sargon the akkadian king who conquered the sumerians
- 3who were the sumerians?the sumerians were desendants of people who stayed in babylon after the dispersion and most likey desendents of nimrod who was a desendant of ham so the sumerians were Hamitic people
- 4what did hammurabi do?hammarabi conquered all of mesopotamia in just 31 years
- 5who were the patriorts?abraham, isaac, and jacob
- 6what three touching countrys form the middle east?asia, africa, and europe
- 7what is the most imortant citie in sumer?ur
- 8why is the fertile cresant known as the fertile cresant?because the two surounding rivers (euphrates amd tiger) two rivers in the dessert ant in between the rivers the land is formed as a cresent moon and the land is fertile
- 9what river means arrow?the tigris river
- 10what river means "that makes fruitfull"the euphrates river
- 11where is mesopatamia?in the fertile cresant between the tigris and euphrates river
- 12where is canaan?on the south east side of the mediterranian sea
- 13why is megiddo important?because the last battle of world history will be there
- 14what is a cuniform?an ancient wedge shaped writing
- 15what is a polytheist?a believer of many gods
- 16what is a monotheist?a believer of one god
- 17what is a humanist?someone who puts man higher than God
- 18who is anu?in sumerian religion the sky god
- 19what is a ziggurat?towers built into tiers or stages
- 20who is nanna?in sumerian religion the moon goddess
- 21what is an empire?rule by one city or people over other cities or people
- 22what is bureaucracy?an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern
- 23who is shamash?the sun god in sumerian religion
- 24what is law?a set of rules for a group of people to follow
- 25what is promulgation?makeing laws known by writing then down and setting them where everyone can see them
- 26what does equality under the law mean?everyone gets punished the same way when commiting the same crime
- 27who was morduk?the chief god of the city of babylon
- 28what is a nation state?a natian or people living under there own lamd or goverment
- 29who is baal?was the chief god of the cananites
- 30what does the dispertion mean?the dispersion maed it hard for people to study history because everyone was spead out
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