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/ˈaməˌrīt/
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a member of a seminomadic people living in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria in the 3rd millennium BC, founders of the ancient city of Mari on the Euphrates and the first dynasty of Babylon.

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The Amorites were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, they expanded and ruled most of the Levant, Mesopotamia and parts of Egypt from the 21st century BC to... Wikipedia
The Amorites were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c.
: a member of one of various Semitic peoples living in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine during the third and second millennia b.c.. Amorite ...
The Amorites were warlike mountaineers and men of great stature described as "remnant of the giants". They are represented on the Egyptian monuments with ...
The Amorites were warlike mountaineers. They are represented on the Egyptian monuments with fair skins, light hair, blue eyes, aquiline noses, and pointed ...
The Amorites were a Semitic people who seem to have emerged from western Mesopotamia (modern-day Syria) at some point prior to the 3rd millennium BCE.
Dec 9, 2022 · In the extrabiblical documents, the term 'Amorite' may refer to a direction ('the west'), to a deity (the god Amurru/Martu), to a language ( ...
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May 24, 2023 · The Amorites were polytheistic people who worshipped gods whose divinity corresponded to certain features of geography or natural weather. One ...
TU, Eblaite Martu(m), and Akkadian Amurru occur as a geographical term meaning literally "the West." The area extended westward from the Euphrates River as far ...
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