TB --> pp. 38-43. READING --> excerpt from Hammurabi's Code. Slides.
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To describe the character of justice found in the Code of Hammurabi and to explain the lasting importance of this ancient document. To list some of the major achievements of the Phoenicians. To explain the advantages that the Phoenician alphabet had over cuneiform. To be able to compare and contrast the religious beliefs of the Jews with those of the Sumerians. To explain the reason why the Jewish religion was revolutionary in ancient times. To discuss the role placed by the Hittites in the early history of the Fertile Crescent region.

Babylonians	Code of Hammurabi	Baal	monotheism
"wear the royal purple"	Yahweh	covenant	Moses
Ark of the Covenant	exodus	Abraham	Ismail
Isaiah	Jeremiah	Bronze Age	Iron Age
Hittites	diaspora

Adding to the map activity from above, locate the following on a   map of the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East and North   Africa:
Taurus Mountains Jordan River Tyre Sidon Byblos Jerusalem Mt. Sinai Sinai Desert	Phoenicia Canaan Dead Sea Red Sea Syrian Desert Carthage Rock of Gibraltar Greece (Balkan) Peninsula Italian Peninsula

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