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7276867636GilgameshA legendary king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk who is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium bc.0
7276869205Epic of GilgameshThe Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.1
7276874641Hammurabi's LawsThe Code of Hammurabi was a comprehensive set of laws, considered by many scholars to be the oldest laws established.2
7276876383Code of Ur-NammuThe Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today.3
7276877707ZigguratA rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.4
7276881254Semitic migrants Sumerian city statesRelating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the early, non-Semitic element it contributed to Babylonian civilization.5
7276883778EmpireAn extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.6
7276886310Iron MetallurgyMetallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements.7
7276887872CuneiformDenoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit.8
7276890505Ten CommandmentsThe divine rules of conduct given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.9
7276893133PolynesiansA native or inhabitant of Polynesia.10
7276947676MonotheismThe doctrine or belief that there is only one God.11
7276950136HebrewsA member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine12
7276952387JudaismAn ancient monotheistic Abrahamic religion.13
7276954091Phoenician TradeThey traded mainly with the Greeks, trading wood, slaves, glass and powdered Tyrian purple.14
7276956316HieroglyphicsDesignating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians15
7276958630Alphabet and the PhoeniciansThe Phoenician alphabet is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world.16
7276959524HittitesA member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from c. 1700 to c. 1200 bc.17
7276960730War ChariotsA two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome.18
7276963087Vedic ReligionThe ancient religion of the Aryan peoples who entered northwestern India from Persia c. 2000-1200 bc.19
7276965190ZoroastrianismA monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century bc.20

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