Chp. 2 of Bentley's Traditions and Encounters
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| 65336633 | Mesopotamia | "the land between the rivers". It was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It had little rain. | 0 | |
| 65336634 | Sargon of Akkad | Lived 2370 - 2315 BCE. Lead coup against king of Kush and united Sumer for a time. He seized trade routes and natural resources. His policies weakened Akkad until the empire collapsed circa 2000 BCE. | 1 | |
| 65336635 | Hammurabi | Lived 1792-1750 BCE. He centralized the bureaucracy and regulated taxation. He is famous for his law code. Later his empire crumbled in 1595 BCE due to a Hittite assault. | 2 | |
| 65336636 | Babylon | The capital of Hammurabi's empire | 3 | |
| 65336637 | Assyrian cities | Assur and Nineveh were: | 4 | |
| 65336638 | Assyrian empire | It lasted from about 1300-612 BCE. It had a powerful army because: it had professional officers (jobs based on merit), chariots, archers, iron weapons, and standardized units. Eventually its unpopular rule led to rebellions and it ended. | 5 | |
| 65336639 | Nebuchadnezzar | Lived 605-562 BCE. He ruled the New Babylonian empire (600-550 BCE). He is well known for his hanging gardens. | 6 | |
| 65336640 | Bronze | It was originally used in weapons and later agricultural tools. | 7 | |
| 65336641 | Iron | (1000 BCE) It was cheaper and more widely available than bronze. It was used in weapons and tools. | 8 | |
| 65336642 | Wheel | (3500 BCE) It helped trade by letting carts carry more things longer distances. | 9 | |
| 65336643 | Cuneiform | The type of writing style used in Mesopotamia. A wedge-shaped reed stylus was pressed into clay and then baked. It was used for commercial and tax documents. | 10 | |
| 65336644 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An example of a myth. | 11 | |
| 65336645 | Abraham | He is the patriarch of the Israelites. | 12 | |
| 65336646 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jewish people | 13 | |
| 65336647 | Phoenicians | One of their major contributions is their early alphabetical script. | 14 | |
| 65336648 | Indo-Europeans | A pastoral people who domesticated horses, learned to ride them, used them with carts and then chariots. They migrated to different places. | 15 | |
| 65336649 | Hittites | They settled in Anatolia around 2000 BCE and conquered the Babylonian empire 1595 BCE. They invented the horse-drawn chariot and found a better way to make iron. | 16 |
