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| 418140887 | Babylon | Was founded in 1867 BC by an Amortie dynasty. The city started as a little town that sprang up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The hanging gardens were one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. It was the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612-539 BC, which was founded by the Chaldeans. | 0 | |
| 418140888 | Megalith | A large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. Large structures were found in eastern Turkey, and were also found in Europe. Tombs were built and used in the ancient world. | 1 | |
| 418140889 | Akkad | Roughly located in the area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are the closest to each other. It is an ancient region of Mesopotamia occupying the northern part of what later was called Babylonian. Was from 2334-2112 BC. | 2 | |
| 418140890 | Mesopotamia | Is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age. It included Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires. In 150 BC, it was under control of Parthians. It became a battle ground between the Romans and the Pathians. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC. | 3 | |
| 418140891 | Ziggurat | were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western iranian plateau. They were built by the sumerians, babylonians,elamites, akkadians, and assyrians for local religions. Have the form of a terraced step pyramid and has receding stories or levels. | 4 | |
| 418140892 | Code of Hammurabi | It is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to 1772 BC. The code consists of 282 laws, with sealed punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. The code of laws was arranged in orderly groups, so that everyone who read the laws, would know what was required of them. | 5 | |
| 418140893 | Hammurabi | the 6th king of Babylon from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. He becamethe first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon's control over Mesopotamia by winning a series of wars against neighboring kingdoms. Is known for the set of laws, which is one of the first written codes standing over 8ft tall at unknown provename found in Levsia in 1901. | 6 | |
| 418140894 | Semitic | was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the ******* Languages. *******-speaking people originated in Southwestern Asia, The word "*******" is an adjective derived from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible. | 7 | |
| 418140895 | Pyramid | A structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense. For thousands of years, the largest structures on earth were ********. The design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground, and with the pyramidion on top means that less material higher up on the structure will bw pushing down from above. This distribution of weight allowed early civilizations to create stable monumental structures. | 8 | |
| 418140896 | King Menes | Ruled over egypt form 3407 BC to 3346 BC. Since he conqured lower egypt and ruled over upper egypt, he decided to create a double crown, a mixture of red and white. He was the first king or pharaoh of Dynasty I. | 9 | |
| 418140897 | Hatshepsut | The fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. established the trade networks that had been disrupted during the Hykso occupation of Egypt during the Second Intermediate period, building the wealth of the 18th dynasty. She is generally regarded by egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous egyptian dynasty. | 10 | |
| 418140898 | Memphis | The ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt. The city was founded by the pharaoh Menes around 3000 BC. It was believed to be under the protection of the god Ptah the patron of craftsmen and its great temple, Hut-ka-Ptah was one of the most prominent structures in the city. During its golden age, the city thrived as a regional center for commerce, track, and religion. | 11 | |
| 418140899 | Thebes | is the greek name for a city in ancient egypt located about 800km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the Nile river. was inhabited around 3200 BC. It was th capital of Waset, the fourth upper egyptian nome. | 12 | |
| 418140900 | Amulet | is any object intended to bring good luck or protection to its owner. Potential ones include: gems, especially engraved gems, statues, coins, drawings, pendants, rings, plants, and animals. In antiquality and the Middle Ages, most Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the orient believed in the protective and healing power of amulets or blessed objects. | 13 | |
| 418140901 | Cuneiform | a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C. | 14 | |
| 418140902 | Pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader | 15 | |
| 418140903 | Ma'at | the ancient egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, who set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation | 16 | |
| 418140904 | Scribe | A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records | 17 | |
| 418140905 | Papyrus | paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat | 18 | |
| 418140906 | City-State | an indepedent or autonomous entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as a part of another local government. | 19 | |
| 418140907 | Sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 20 | |
| 418140908 | Hieroglyphics | oldest forms of writing. Earliest evidence of ancient ************* is from 3300BC, and the egyptians used them for the next 3,500 years. The ancient writings translates into "language of the gods". | 21 | |
| 418140909 | Civilization | an advanced state of human society in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. In 3200 BC the two earliest developed in the region where southwest Asia joins northeats Africa. | 22 | |
| 418140910 | Stone Age | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances. It was followed in some places by the Bronze Age and more generally by the Iron Age. | 23 | |
| 418140911 | Paleolithic | a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primative stone tools discovered and covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistory. | 24 | |
| 418140912 | Neolithic | the last part of the stone age. It was the rise of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution", and ending when metal tools became widespreadin the Copper Age | 25 | |
| 418140913 | Foragers | someone who wanders in search of food or provisions. | 26 | |
| 418140914 | Pastoral Societies | traditional societies in which a significant part of their economy and food production is through livestock | 27 | |
| 418140915 | Agricultural Revolutions | tools of farming began advancing. was a period of agricultural development between the 18th century and the end of the 19th century | 28 | |
| 418140916 | Holocene | geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. It is part of the Quaternary Period. It encompasses within it the growth and impacts of the human species world-wide, including all it written history and overall significant transition toward urban living in the present | 29 |
