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2. Who invented writing and lived far better than prehistoric humans?

3. Sumerians

4. Who united the city-states of Mestopotomia?

5. Sargon I

6. Who was the first leader of the Hebrew people?

7. Abraham

8. What group of people believed in only one god?

9. Hebrews

10. What group of people gave us the alphabet?

11. Phoenicians

12. What is a city surrounded by smaller villages called?

13. city-state

14. What is the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers called?

15. Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent

16. Merchants came from China and India to do business in _________.

17. Babylon

18. What is the name of the four sided pyramids?

19. ziggurat

20. What is the name of the land in the Middle East shaped like a quarter moon?

21. Fertile Crescent

22. What is a gift offered to a god by killing or burning something?

23. sacrifice

24. What is the name of the book that Hebrews and Christians believe is holy?

25. bible

26. A __________ is a sharp, pointed writing tool.

27. stylus

28. Phoenician sailors used the _____ _____ to navigate their ships.

29. North Star

30. Sumerians made their homes out of ________.

31. brick

32. A time when no crops grow is a ___________.

33. famine

34. Hammurabi collected laws from many people and put them into a ________.

35. code

36. The Hebrews set a high standard of _________

37. morality

38. One type of religious leader is called a ________.

39. priest

40. A person who buys and sells is a ___________.

41. merchant

42. A rule or a way to act is a _______.

43. commandment

44. This word means having to do with the army or people who fight wars.

45. military

46. This word means to keep out water by using banks of earth.

47. dike(s)

48. What group of people did Hammurabi rule?

49. Babylonians

50. What word means to honor or praise god.

51. worship