Amorite

Chapter 2 Vocab. Words Audree Co?Wed Dec 21 16:38:08 CST 2011 Civilization An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologist to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits Babylon The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite king Hammurabi in the 18th?century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the 6th?century B.C.E Sumerians The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture- such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions ? taken over by the Semitic successors Semitic