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| 14654835709 | Mesopotamian Civilization | Formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and Kuwait. | 0 | |
| 14654835710 | Mesopotamian Civilizations | Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian | 1 | |
| 14654835711 | Mesopotamia | Translated: Country between two rivers. | 2 | |
| 14654835712 | Tigris and Euphrates | Rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia. | 3 | |
| 14654835713 | Sumeria | First urban civilization in the region dating back to possibly 4000-6000 B.C.E. | 4 | |
| 14654835714 | cuneiform | One of the first written scripts around 3000 BCE: wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets. | 5 | |
| 14654835715 | Epic of Gilgamesh | One of the world's first great works of literature written in cuneiform. | 6 | |
| 14654835716 | Polytheism | Sumerian religion worshipped multiple gods—many of which were anthropomorphic—they took human-like form | 7 | |
| 14654835717 | Akkadians | A group that emerged in northern Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.E. who spoke a semitic language, and had a great king, Sargon. | 8 | |
| 14654835718 | Sargon | Came to power around 2334 B.C.E., and established what might have been the world's first dynastic empire | 9 | |
| 14654835719 | Assyria | Named after the city of Asur--when the Akkadian empire collapsed they became the dominant power from the late twenty-first century B.C.E. until the late seventh century B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 14654835720 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king perhaps best known for his harsh code of laws, efficient centralized bureaucracy, and defeating foreign invaders. | 11 | |
| 14654835721 | Code of Hammurabi | Written on stone stele—slabs—and clay tablets. Consists of 282 laws with scaled punishments depending on social status, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" | 12 |
