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Moses

(Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus

Ten Commandments

A code of moral laws

Polytheism

Belief in many gods

Monotheism

Belief in one God

Pharaoh

Egyptian leader

Papyrus

Egyptian paper made from reeds

Hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing in which symbols stand for words

Hieroglyphics

Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.

Code of Hammurabi

Hammurabi, ruler of the Babylonian Empire of the Fertile Crescent ,created a code of of laws the stated violations ad their punishments ;instead of fining violators,the demanded "an eye for and eye"

Ziggurat

Mesopotamian temple at the center of the city

Pictogram

The earliest written symbols

Exile

a person banished from his or her native land

Dynasty

a sequence of rulers

codify

arrange and set down in writing

Nubia

by 3000 B.C.,a civilization developed on the southern part of the Nile River and made contact with Egypt ;2000 B.C.,the Nubian civilization became the kingdom of Kush

city-state

center of government and its surrounding area

Fertile Crescent

land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first civilization began

Abraham

leader of the Hebrew was a herder and trader who left Ur in Mesopotamia around 1900 B.C. to settle in Canaan in Middle East near the Jordan River

Silt

rich soil deposited after flooding

alphabet

the Phoenicians,invented the alphabet inherited by the Greeks,Romans , and eventually, us.

Diaspora

the scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs

Specialization

to produce only a certain good or service

Canaan

today it s made up of Lebanon ,Israel , and Jordan

pyramid

tomb for the pharaoh

Torah

written records and beliefs of the Hebrews