Mesopotamia review

4. army a permanent army of professional soldiers
8. a state containing several countries or territories
10. a weekly day of rest
12. a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
13. the southern part of ancient Mesopotamia
15. person believed to be chosen by God to bring truth to the people
16. a binding agreement
20. separation from one’s homeland
21. a state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
22. trait an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
25. to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services
26. the escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
27. a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power
29. an order to do something
31. a Jewish religious teacher
32. a small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
33. a group of soldiers who fight while riding horses
34. very small particles left as sediment from water
36. in the Hebrew Bible, a leader who could rally the Israelites to defend their land
37. a language made up of or written with marks or letters shaped like wedges
38. to supply land and crops with water
40. Jewish communities outside the ancient Jewish homeland, from a Greek word meaning dispersion, or scattering
41. diffusion the spreading of cultural traits from one culture to another

1. fairness or fair treatment
2. belief in a single god
3. Jewish house of worship
5. the art of steering a ship from place to place
6. belief in or worship of more than one god
7. acting or living in a way that is ethically right and obeys God’s laws
9. of law the idea that all members of a society must obey the law; key part of modern democratic principles
11. beliefs about what is right and wrong
14. a good or service produced within a country and sold outside of that country’s borders
16. a group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
17. an independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
18. Crescent semicircle of fertile land created by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that stretches from the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea through the Syrian Desert north of Arabia to the Persian Gulf
19. a grand stone pillar
23. Code a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire
24. money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
28. the collection of oral teachings and commentaries about the Hebrew Bible and Jewish law
30. a region in the Middle East near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
35. the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
39. a tall temple pyramid in ancient Mesopotamia with outside staircases and a shrine at the top