| A | B |
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| civilization | a human society with its own social organization and culture |
| Mesopotamia - "land between the rivers" | where the earliest civilization in Southwest Asia began |
| Sumer was part of a larger belt of land between Mesopotamia and Egypt known as | the Fertile Crescent |
| The flood water of the Tigris and Euphrates were | unpredictable and often violent |
| flood water of the Tigris & Euphrates would deposit | a layer of silt to enrich the land |
| ziggurat | a multitiered temple whose hieght brought glory to the gods |
| cuneiform | Sumerian system of of writing; most significant achievment |
| polytheistic | the worship of many gods |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Sumerian Epic poem; first epic poem in world lit. creation of man & a Great Flood (similar to "Book of Genesis") |
| a Semitic invader: Sargon the Great | united the Sumerian city stated about 2300 BCE |
| Hammurabi | Emporor or the Babylonians of Mesopotamia |
| The Code of Hammurabi | laws: concept of realiatory punishment (an eye for an eye) |
| Sargon conquered Sumer & created what new empire? | Akkadian Empire - which united the Sumerian ciy states |
| Menes, the first pharaoh (upper Egypt) | united the two farming villages along the Nile & est. 1st Egyptian dynasty |
