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| 11831695654 | Ur, Uruk, and Babylon | city in current day Iraq the city was quite large around the time of its settlement being a cultural center in early Sumeria came under akkadian control and produced seals which would be placed around the city was also mentioned in the epic of Gilgamesh and became the city of Babylon | 0 | |
| 11831763133 | Social Classes of Mesopotamia | developed due to excess food supplies creating a hierarchy with a upper and lower class | 1 | |
| 11831763915 | Shatterzone | The area in Mesopotamia where Subsequent peoples and empires inhabited the same area constantly | 2 | |
| 11831765150 | Jericho | First walled settlement existing in current day Palestine settlement contained about 1,000 residents walls most likely protected the water supply and was mentioned in the bible, evidence of multiply walls suggest that earthquakes would cause the walls to fall occasionally | 3 | |
| 11831765160 | Assyrians | ancient empire existing in Mesopotamia maintained power over their empire through the use of brutal military force and demolishing of enemy moral they would also deport peoples of conquered lands placing their own peoples within the areas | 4 | |
| 11831767279 | Phoenicians | trading people located in the Mediterranean sea named after the rare purple snails they would crush and dry for purple dye, impacted the language and culture of the region significantly due to their maritime nature | 5 | |
| 11831767280 | Ziggurat | large stone platforms erected around Mesopotamia probably used for religious purposes with textual evidence suggesting that shrines would be placed on top of the ziggurat | 6 | |
| 11831769970 | multiple function of Mesopotamian temples | 7 | ||
| 11831769971 | Egypt | empire forming on the Nile river in was ruled by pharaohs or god-kings and had a great deal of development in comparison with the rest of the world in early days, also had a system of writing which allowed for social mobility, tax collecting, and other bureaucratic procedures | 8 | |
| 11831770887 | Egypt - Isolation | civilization located on the banks of the Nile river and enclosed by the Sahara desert this allowed the people that lived there to develop similarly forming the first nation in history based on common language and culture | 9 | |
| 11831770888 | Nile | river that runs centrally through Egypt and is the main water supply for the region, consist of two parts the upper and lower, Egypt is described as the gift of the Nile for this reason | 10 | |
| 11831771910 | innundation | The period at the beginning of the annual flooding of the Nile between July and November | 11 | |
| 11831771911 | Mesopotamia | translates from Greek to the place between the rivers as its placed between the Euphrates and Tigris, area is fertile and experience a rainy season forming the beliefs of many of the early civilization there | 12 | |
| 11831771912 | Sargon | king of the akkadian empire he was the first king and kept power through speaking of connections to the common people, as his story goes he was floating down a river in a reed basket and taken in by farmers | 13 | |
| 11831773953 | Addadia | first empire started around 2340 BCE by Sargon of Akkad, included multiple city states which would be taken one by one by sargon although much of the local customs where kept in order to not destabilize empire | 14 | |
| 11831773955 | Hebrews | people claiming relation to Abraham follow Judaism and worshiping one god Yahweh enslaved in Egypt in which they exited with the help of Moses and miracles spend time in the wilderness and are frequently subjugated until forming Israel | 15 | |
| 11831775571 | Persians | largest empire in the ancient world capitol Persepolis was located in current day Iran but had many cities throughout their land all linked together with a central road and governed by regional satraps keeping much of the original culture of a region | 16 | |
| 11831779784 | Trading Peoples | 17 | ||
| 12012163929 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king was the first to record a code of laws | 18 |
