Early Societies in SW Asia and the Indo- European Migration
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| 273198136 | Assyrians | Southwest Asian people who built an empire that reached its height during the 7th and 8th centuries BCE, Powerful Army, well structured state | 0 | |
| 273198137 | Cuneiform | Written language of the Sumerians, probably first written script in world | 1 | |
| 273198138 | Gilgamesh | Legendary king of the Mesopotamian city-state of Urak | 2 | |
| 273198139 | Epic of Gilgamesh | World's oldest complete epic literary masterpiece | 3 | |
| 273198140 | Hebrews | Semitic speaking Nomadic tribe, influential for monothiestic belief in Yahweh | 4 | |
| 273198141 | Mesopotamia | "Between the Rivers"- Tigris and Euphrates, Sumer and Akkad were two of the earliest societies | 5 | |
| 273198142 | Patriarch | Leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, split with the Pope and Roman Catholic Church | 6 | |
| 273198143 | Sumerians | Earliest Mesopotamian society | 7 | |
| 273198144 | Sumer | An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing. | 8 | |
| 273198145 | Hammurabi | King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 9 | |
| 273198146 | Israelites | The early ancestors of the Jewish people | 10 | |
| 273198147 | Jews | Term originally used to describe the people who resettled in the area of Judah following the Babylonian Exile; most commonly used to refer to followers of Judaism, Monothiestic | 11 | |
| 273198148 | Phoenicians | Important trading people who lived on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, started the greek alphabet | 12 | |
| 273198149 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria | 13 |
