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| 207805304 | Ziggurats | temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshipped | 0 | |
| 207805305 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 1 | |
| 207805306 | Epic of gilgamesh | The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction. | 2 | |
| 207805307 | Lex talionis | Law of retribution "an eye for an eye" | 3 | |
| 207805308 | Yahweh | a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH | 4 | |
| 207805309 | 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. | 5 | |
| 207805310 | Babylonians | they extended their own empire and therefore helped bring civilization to the Middle East; Hammurabi introduced his code of law; it established rules of procedure for courts of law and regulated property rights and the duties of family members, setting harsh punishments for crimes | 6 | |
| 207805311 | Assyrians | Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire | 7 | |
| 207805312 | Phoenicians | Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast | 8 | |
| 207805313 | Torah | ..., (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written | 9 | |
| 207805314 | Hittites | ..., A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 10 | |
| 207805315 | Hebrews | ..., a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him | 11 | |
| 207805316 | Israelite | ..., a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties | 12 | |
| 207805317 | Jews | ..., followers of judaism | 13 | |
| 207805318 | Monotheism | ..., belief in a single God | 14 | |
| 207805319 | Polytheism | ..., belief in multiple Gods | 15 | |
| 207805320 | Sargon of Akkad | ..., A conqueror from Akkad, north of Sumer, who took over all of Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire. | 16 | |
| 207805321 | Hammurabi | ..., King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law. | 17 | |
| 207805322 | Abraham | ..., the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac | 18 | |
| 207805323 | David | ..., (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites | 19 | |
| 207805324 | Solomon | ..., (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC) | 20 | |
| 207805325 | Nebuchadnezzar | ..., a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine | 21 | |
| 207805326 | Ashurbanipal | ..., An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 cuniform tablets were now found form him. Made a huge library in Nineveh | 22 | |
| 207805327 | Moses | ..., (Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus | 23 | |
| 207805328 | Ten commandments | ..., A set of laws for responsible behavior, which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses by God. | 24 | |
| 207805329 | Indo- European | ..., A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia | 25 |
