7425253461 | Gilgamesh | 5th king of Urk City; 2750 B.C.E | 0 | |
7425255165 | Mesopotamia | The land between the rivers; Tigris and Euphrates | 1 | |
7425258615 | Tigris and Euphrates rivers | Brought large volumes of water; one of 4 river valleys | 2 | |
7425258616 | Sumerians | People who inhabited the land in sixth millennium; irrigation networks | 3 | |
7425260824 | Semitic | migrants from other regions; spoke tongues | 4 | |
7425263079 | Phoenician | Language spoke in the Semitic family languages | 5 | |
7425266898 | Ziggurats | Pyramids that housed temples | 6 | |
7425268684 | Sargon of Akkad | A city near Kish and Babylon; seized trade routes and natural resources ; gradually collapsed | 7 | |
7425268685 | Hammurabi | Centralizes the bureaucracy and regulates taxation | 8 | |
7425273069 | Lex Talionis | A latin phrase that means the law of retaliaton | 9 | |
7425273070 | Assyrians | Hardy people from northern Mesopotamia ; built state in the tigris rivers | 10 | |
7425276007 | Nebuchadnezzar | King from 600 to 550 B.C.E; lavished wealth and on his city | 11 | |
7425278033 | Metallurgy | Pottery, textile manufacture,woodworking,leather production, brick making, stone cutting, and masonry; Science and technology | 12 | |
7425280432 | Cuneiform | Sumerian writing also known as.. In latin meaning "wedged shaped" | 13 | |
7425284026 | Hebrews/Israelites/Jews | collection of sacred writing. Speakers,form a branch of hebrews and kingdom of Judah | 14 | |
7425284027 | Monotheism | only one god | 15 | |
7425286636 | Indo-European | Tribal groups from southern Russia, languages such as Basque,Finnish and Hungarian | 16 | |
7425288395 | Hittites | Most influential Indo-European; Migrated from central Plain of Anatolia; Built powerful kingdoms | 17 | |
7425288396 | War Chariots | Technology (Horse, two wheeled vehicle in war) Chariots (spokes) and iron metallurgy | 18 | |
7425291733 | Xinjiang | Western Chinese Providence | 19 |
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