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| antrhopologists | focus on human society. |
| archaologists | People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground |
| artifacts | weapons, tools and other things mad by humans |
| Assyria | an ancient empire that arose in the Northern part of Mesopotamia near the Tirgris River around 650 BC |
| Babylon | City and trade cetner built near the Euprhates River |
| Catal Huyuk | a Neolithic community in present day Turkey. it was home to about 6,000 people who lived in simple mud-brick houses between 6700 B.C. and 5700 B.C. |
| domesticate | When they tame animals and plants for human use. |
| Euphrates River | river that flows from Turkey through Syria and Iraq; the Euphrates merges with the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab |
| fossils | traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock. |
| Hammurabi | king who created the Babylonian Empire; he is known for his collection of laws called the Code of Hammurabi |
| historians | These are people that study and write about the past. |
| Jericho | One of the earliest known Neolithic communities, this city in the West Bank between what are now Israel and Jordan, dates back to about 8000 B.C. |
| Mesopotamia | a flat plain in what is now southern Iraq, bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; it is the site of the earliest known civilization |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who controlled all of Mesopotamia from 605 B.C. to 562 B.C. |
| Neolithic | Greek workd for the new stone age |
| Nomad | people who move regulary from place to place |
| Persian Gulf | body of water that separates Iran from the peninsula of Arabia |
| Region | King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia in 2340 B.C. Sargon's empire lasted for more than 200 years |
| Revolution | a complete change |
| Sargon | King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia in 2340 B.C. Sargon's empire lasted for more than 200 years |
| Technology | tools and methods to help humans perform tasks. |
| Sumer | a region in southern Mesopotamia where many cities had formed by 3000 B.C. |
| Tigris River | river that flows from Turkey to Iraq; the Tigris merges with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt-al-Arab |
