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| Wide, fertile river mouth |
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| Highly developed form of culture |
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| Recurring river valley events that enriched the soil |
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| Groups of people identified by their status |
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| Geographical areas where the earliest civilizations developed |
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| Soft metal used by early cultures |
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| Mixture of copper and tin that gave its name to an age |
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| Strong metal first used widely by the Hittites that gave its name to an age |
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| Method of watering crops during dry seasons |
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| Devices used for flood control |
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| Cooperative system that developed as people worked together |
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| Economic system created by surplus products |
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| Principle occupation of the earliest river valley dwellers |
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| Devices developed to reckon and mark time |
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| Invention spurred by the need for records |
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| Two projects that required group cooperation in river valleys |
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| irrigation & flood control |
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| Vital transportation method developed by the Sumerians |
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| New system in which certain people specialized in specific types of work |
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| Simplified picture of a thing |
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| Picture that stands for an idea |
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| Picture that stands for a sound |
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| Principle building material in Sumer |
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| Sumerian writing material |
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| System that linked the different parts of both the Assyrian empire and the Persian empire |
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| Form of money used for Persian trade |
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| Basic political division in Sumer-made up of a city and its surrounding lands and villages |
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| Sumerian wedge-shaped writing |
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| Architectural element invented by Sumerians |
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| Governors of Sumerian cities |
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| The Babylonian collection of laws |
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| Group of states or nations under one ruler, first created by Sargon |
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| Artisan's device for shaping jugs and bowls, first used by Sumerians |
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| Vast Assyrian collection of clay tablets (one of the world's first) |
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| Divisions of the Assyrian empire |
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| Chaldean studies of the stars and planets |
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| Kingship passed down from father to son |
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| Owned of each Sumerian city's land |
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| Pyramid-temple at the center of each Sumerian city |
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| Sumerian development in mathematics |
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| Basic principle of justice under Babylonian law |
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| Basic principle of Hittite justice |
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| Belief in a number of gods, common among ancient people |
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| The "land between the rivers" |
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| Easternmost Mesopotamia's twin rivers |
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| Westernmost of Mesopotamia's twin rivers |
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| Principal city of the Babylonian empire |
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| Arc of rich-soil land where Mesopotamia was located |
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| The two Far Eastern lands that trade with Mesopotamia |
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| Mesopotamia's twin rivers emptied into this body of water |
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| Present-day country that includes most of Mesopotamia |
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| Southern Mesopotamia, home of the earliest known civilization |
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| Capital city of the Assyrian empire |
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| Western boundary of the Babylonian empire |
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| One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, located in Babylon |
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| Present-day country that includes Persia |
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| African country that traded with Mesopotamia |
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| Area where Mesopotamia's twin rivers began |
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| Great city-state of Sumer |
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| Easternmost boundary of the Persian empire at its peak |
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| Famous Persian transportation route |
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| Desert land to the south of Mesopotamia |
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| People who created the earliest known civilization |
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| Warlike people from Asia Minor who were the first conquerors of Babylon |
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| Warfare specialists who destroyed Babylon and created a huge empire |
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| First ruler of the Persian empire |
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| People who created the mightiest Mesopotamian empire |
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| Sumerian priest-king who was the hero of the world's oldest written story |
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| Ruler who joined Sumer and Akkad, creating the world's first empire |
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| Ruler of the first Babylonian empire |
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| People who captured Ninevah and rebuilt Babylon |
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| Ruler of the second Babylonian empire |
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| Former allies defeated by the Persians around 550 B.C.E. |
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| Ruler of the Persian empire at its peak |
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| Son of Darius who invaded Greece |
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| Class of people who had more rights in Babylonia than in other Mesopotamian countries |
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| Major occupation of the Assyrians |
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| Assyrian king who created a notable early library |
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| Son of the first Persian ruler; he conquered Egypt |
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| Supreme god of the Assyrians |
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