Chapter 2 - Ancient Middle East and Egypt

Civil laws is the branch of law that deals with offenses against others such as robbery, assault and murder

A new religious belief rejecting old Persian gods and taught of a single wise god was known as Zoroaster

Under which king did the Babylonian empire stretch from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

Religious belief that there was only one god

A set of laws that Jews believe God gave to them through Moses

The river that was responsible for early civilizations in Egypt was

The most sacred script of Judaism is the Torah

The Great Pyramids in Egypt were built as houses for the living pharaohs

Hammurabi published a set of laws known as Hammurabi’s Code these were the first set of laws to codify in writing

The Israelites believed that God made a covenant with Solomon

The Phoenicians were responsible for discovering electricity

Sumerians created the earliest known writing called cuneiform

The spreading out of the Jewish people to different parts of the world is called Diaspora

He was responsible for building the first empire in Mesopotamia in about 2300 B.C.

The early civilization that developed between the Tigris and Euphtrates river

Patriarchal means that men held the greatest legal and moral authority

Mesopotamia is also known as

This man led the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt

King Tutankhamen’s tomb remained untouched for more than 3,000 years

A triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers

An Egyptian King was called a Pharaoh

The process of preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth

Hieroglyphics is a system in which symbols or pictures represent objects,concepts or sounds.

A large stepped platform topped by a temple dedicated to the city’s chief god or goddess