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| 7320990435 | Mesopotamia | "Land between the rivers" Early civilizations developed along the rivers( Tigris and Euphrates) People learned how to capture and make the water go where they wanted |  | 0 |
| 7321002432 | Sumer | Southern half of Mesopotamia. People developed elaborate irrigation networks. Attracted migrants. Built first cities(Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, Kish) based on political and military authority and cultural centers for priests and scribes |  | 1 |
| 7321036487 | Ziggurats | distinctive step pyramids that housed temples , Inanna fertility goddess |  | 2 |
| 7321051291 | Sargon Of Akkad | creator of the empire in Mesopotamia, talented administrator and warrior |  | 3 |
| 7321058911 | Hammurabi | famous of his code common punishment was death, this Babylonian king who styled himself as the king of the four quarters of the world, regularly collected taxes developed a more efficient and predictable government. |  | 4 |
| 7321077072 | Lex talionis | bases of Hammurabi's code another words for an eye for an eye |  | 5 |
| 7321100309 | Assyrian Empire | known for their cruelty, took advantage of their trade routes and armies and set out to basically conquer the world, had chariots that defeated the Babylonian empire and iron from the Hittites |  | 6 |
| 7321117847 | Hittites | first to cast iron and invent the wheel | 7 | |
| 7321122287 | Nebuchadnezzar | New Babylonian Empire made it stronger than ever, made the hanging gardens for his wife |  | 8 |
| 7321142480 | Bronze Metallurgy | Copper +Tin. Had an immediate reaction with the military ways |  | 9 |
| 7321154997 | Iron Metallurgy | Use of the new technique with this element created stronger longer lasting tools for military and farming need. This allowed the Assyrians to take over Babylonian |  | 10 |
| 7321163926 | Wheel | Creation of this changed every bodies life in one way or another. Used for war |  | 11 |
| 7321170686 | Shipbuilding | Started mainly by the Phoenicians to expanded their trade network this allowed men to sail across seas |  | 12 |
| 7321181839 | Patriarchal Society | Social class in which fathers and men lead while women and child follow |  | 13 |
| 7321192202 | Cuneiform | wedge shaped stylus that allowed them to write in clay adapted from the Sumerians script |  | 14 |
| 7321195867 | Alphabet | Phoenicians developed an this |  | 15 |
| 7321202098 | Epic of Gilgamesh | first written legends. recounted tales of him and Enkidu relationships between gods and humans |  | 16 |
