mesopotamia and the fertile cresent

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  1. 4. a system of writing developed by the ancient sumerians that used wedge shaped symbols
  2. 8. a long period of dry weather
  3. 10. one of the ancient woders of the world thought to be made by babylonians
  4. 11. self governing city and the land that surrounds it
  5. 12. a wide spred lack of food resulting in in hunger and starvation
  6. 14. belief in one god
  7. 15. the land between two rivers the area between the tigris and euphates rivers in the middle east
  8. 18. a large temple built by ancient sumerians to honor their gods and goddesses
  9. 19. an extra supply of something (food)
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  1. 1. a fertile reigion in the middle east
  2. 2. a religion founded by the hebrews
  3. 3. belief in many gods or goddesses
  4. 5. a hebrew that was raised as an eygyptian pharoh eventually led the hebrew people out of slavery from eygypt and recieved the ten commandments
  5. 6. an ancient city in mesopotamia and the capital of the vast empire that covered the fertile cresent
  6. 7. the worlds first system of laws recorded by king hammurabi around 1780 b.c.e
  7. 9. trade of one thing for another without the use of money
  8. 10. the ten laws that god gave to moses on mount sinai
  9. 13. babylon ruler who recorded the first system of laws known as the code of hammurabi
  10. 15. a mountain in eygypts sinai peninsula and the place according to the bible that moses recieved the ten commandments
  11. 16. the ancient civilization in southern mesopotamia and one of the first civilizations in the world
  12. 17. great hebrew leader who lead his from sumer to the land of canaan