Mesopotamia
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- Theocracy
- A system of government by priests claiming the right to rule from the gods
- Ziggurat
- A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamians, having the form of a terraced pyramid.
- Stylus
- Wedge shaped reed used for writing cuneiform
- Cuneiform
- Wedge-shaped writing of the ancient Sumerians and other ancient peoples
- Sargon I
- The first emperor of Sumer
- Silt
- Rich soil deposited by floodwaters
- Persian Gulf
- Body of water that lies southeast of Iraq and east of Saudi Arabia. Used as a trade route in the ancient Middle East
- Sumer
- Name of the first civilization established in Mesopotamia
- Hierarchy
- System of ranks
- Afterlife
- An existence following death
- Hebrews
- One of the first groups of people to believe in one God
- Ur
- The first important city in Mesopotamia
- Dynasty
- Ruling family
- Mediterranean
- Sea located North of Egypt
- Hammurabi
- King of Babylon. Created one of the first written code of laws called the code of Hammurabi
- The Fertile Crescent
- An arc of land that began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and extended to the Mediterranean coast
- Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- The land between these two rivers contained the early civilizations of Mesopotamia
- Phoenicians
- Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast
- Levee
- A barrier built to contain the flow of water or to keep out flood waters
- Mesopotamia
- "Land between two rivers". Area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- Monotheistic
- Believing in one God
- Osiris
- Egyptian God of the Nile River. Responsible for the annual flooding of the Nile
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The oldest work of literature, dating back over 5,000 years
- Fertile Crescent
- A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates