 | Term | Definition |
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Oasis |
Fertile desert area that has enough water to support plant and animal life |
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Ziggurat |
A huge many tiered temple |
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Scribe |
People who kept and wrote temple records |
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Cuneiform |
Wedge shaped writing of the aincent Sumerians |
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Satrap |
Governer of a proveience in aincent Persia |
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Messiah |
One annointed by God |
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Parable |
A short story with a simple moral lesson to teach people to be kind to one another |
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Martyr |
People who suffer, or die for their religious beliefs |
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Pope |
Father of the catholic church |
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Hejira |
The migration of Muhammad and his followers form Mecca to Medina |
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Hajj |
Pilgramence to Mecca that all the muslims who are expected to make once in their lifetime |
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Caliph |
Secular and religious head of a Muslim state, succesor to the prophet of Muhammad |
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Crusade |
Holy war |
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Mandate |
A territory administrated but not owned by a memeber of the Leauge of Nations |
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Anti-Semistism |
Hatred and fear of Jews |
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Bedouins |
Nomadic herders or people of the tent |
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Zionism |
Movement among European Jews to set up a Jewish homeland i Palestine |
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Hebrew |
The aincent Jews; another name for a Jew |
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