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- Hammurabi
- King of Babylon. Created one of the first written code of laws.
- Cuneiform
- a system of writing used in ancient Mesootamia, in which wedge-shaped characters were produced b pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise hardened
- Ziggurat
- A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamians, having the form of a terraced pyramid., A multi-story, mud-brick, pyramid shaped tower approached by ramps and stairs. It is associated with religion in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but it's function is unknown.
- The Fertile Crescent
- An arc of land that began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and extended to the Mediterranean coast
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The oldest work of literature, dating back over 5,000 years, . It tells the story of a Sumerian king who sought immortality. He was like the Odysseus of Mesopotamian.
- Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- The land between these two rivers contained the early civilizations of Mesopotamia
- 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
- Ur
- The first important city in Mesopotamia
- Mediterranean
- Sea located North of Egypt
- Mesopotamia
- "Land between two rivers". Area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. First civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture
- Theocracy
- A system of government by priests claiming the right to rule from the gods
- Levee
- A barrier built to contain the flow of water or to keep out flood waters