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| A group of many different lands under one ruler |
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| A long poem that tells the story of a hero; it is also the world's oldest story |
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| Built a great army to protect their lands from invasion |
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| Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife |
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| Developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons |
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| Group who rebelled against the Assyrians |
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| King of Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia |
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| One of the oldest known villages of the Neolithic time |
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| People who study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past |
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| Inventions of the Sumerians |
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| Members of the Mesopotamian upper class |
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| Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery |
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| Taming of plants and animals for use by humans |
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| Things made by humans long ago |
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| Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth |
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| Wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life |
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| a mixture of copper and tin |
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| building dams,channels,walls, and ditches to bring water to crops |
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| person who studies or writes about the past |
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| the center of the Assyrians empire |
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