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| (Fertile Crescent) between the rivers, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Flat and open. There are mountains to the North. Dry, hot, arid. |
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| Came up with “Hammurabi’s Code”, one of the first collection of laws |
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| fought over continuously because of the “fertility” of it. |
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| a square temple based loosely on the Tower of Babel |
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| wedge-shaped characters used in ancient writing systems. |
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| upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface. |
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| foretelling of future events |
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| ancient Sumerian city near the Euphrates |
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| collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts from various periods |
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| crypt/tomb of an Egyptian King |
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| pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds |
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| semidivine king of Erech, hero of an epic collection of mythic tales. |
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| Sumerian legendary friend of Gilgamish |
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| Guardian of Cedar Forest. Killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu |
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| home of the Mesopotamian gods |
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| killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu in an act of defiance against the gods |
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| goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex |
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| flood hero that was granted immortality by the gods |
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| Utnapishtim's boatman, guardian of the mysterious stone things |
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| they have iron weapons, making them superior to others |
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| War machine like Assyrians, but diplomatic more so instead |
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| Professional soldiers (the Immortals) |
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| belief in one god instead of several |
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| belief that there are multiple gods |
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| alliance/agreement made by God |
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| mentioned with the Great Flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh and mesopotamian |
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| autonomous entity not administered as a part of another local government |
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| a syllabary (a writing system in which one character represents a whole syllable) written from left to right |
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| borrowed from the Minoan civilization by the Mycenaean Greeks to write their dialect |
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| King of Crete whose wife bore the Minotaur |
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| monster of Crete with the body of a man and the head of a bull |
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| ancient Cretan sport for both sexes involving grasping the horns of a bull and tumbling over him |
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| King of Mycenae who returned home he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus |
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| Spartan King who was the husband of Helen, whose abduction led to the Trojan War. Welcoming and hospitable |
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| May or may not love her husband and most significant ambiguous narrator |
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| stole Menelaus' wife, Helen, causing the Trojan War |
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| slayed Hector, but died by a piercing of the only vulnerable spot on his body, his ankle |
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| receives Telemachus kindly and entertains him |
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| The central character of the Odyssey |
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| Wife of Odysseus. Stays faithful while Odysseus is absent for 20+ years |
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| Odysseus' son. He experiences his intiation into manhood at a late age because of Odysseus' absence |
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| Goddess of wisdom, courage, strategy. |
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| goddess of women and marriage |
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| god of the sea and earthquakes |
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| nurse of Odysseus and Telemachus |
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| Odysseus' swineherd and friend |
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| one of the ring leaders of the suitors. bully and offensive |
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| one of the ring leaders. patronizing and double-talker, poisonous |
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| one of the suitors. says he will not kill Telemachus unless it is ordained by the gods |
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| ruler of the Phaiakians in the island of Scheria |
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| means excellence of any kind, geared mainly towards women |
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| sweet yet tricky nymph. tricked Odysseus' crew and turned them into swine |
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| keeps Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband |
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| Scylla manages to catch six of Odysseus' men. monster |
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| a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard |
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| cyclops who is tricked by Odysseus |
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| poem in elevated or dignified language |
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| poem in elevated or dignified language |
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| appeal to a higher power for assistance |
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| descriptive word or phrase added to a person's name |
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| product of Zeus and Mnemosyne |
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