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| Old Stone Age; when people were hunter-gatherers and nomads |
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| help of an epic poem who travels around the world performing great deeds |
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| group of many different lands under one ruler |
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| Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife |
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| one of the oldest known cities |
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| area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, known as the "cradle of civilization" |
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| things made by humans long ago |
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| site of one of the world's first libraries |
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| skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery |
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| wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life. |
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| Sumerian writing system; a system of wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets |
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| the center of the Chaldean empire |
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| people who study and write about the human past are called |
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| traveling group of merchants |
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| long poem that tells the story of a hero |
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| complex society with organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and writing system |
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| tools and methods to help humans perform taks; it began with Paleolithic people |
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| focus on human society and how humans developed and related to each other |
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| tame animals and plant for human use |
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| development of different types of jobs |
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| earliest known civilization; between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; in present-day Iraq |
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