| A | B |
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| scribe | a professional writer |
| polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| myth | a traditional, ancient story that explains natural occurances. |
| city-state | a city with its own traditions and its own goverment and laws |
| empire | many territories and people who are controlled by one goverment |
| caravan | a group of traders traveling toghter. |
| bazaar | a market selling different kinds of goods |
| The Fertile Crecsent got its name | it is a crescent shape between the Mediteranean Sea and the Persian Gulf including the fertile land between The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers |
| People wanted to live in Mesopotamia because | there was rich soil and abundant trade |
| Three major civilizations in Mesopotamia | Baylonians, Assyrians and Sumarians |
| Two important facts about Sumer | Sumer was made of farms and cities, Sumer was wealthy |
| Babylon was important for trade because | its central location attracted caravans of traders at its many bazaars |
| Assyrians are famous because | libraries and tools of war |
| What groups of people conquered the Assyrians | Medes and Chaldeans |
| Nebuchadnezzar is famous because | rebuilt city of Babylon |
| Two legacies from Mesopotamia | Hammurabi's code and writing |
| Hammurabi's code | 282 laws in different catagories with different punishments depending on class |
| Hammurabi's code is important because | it was organized and written down and fair |
| The development of writing | first pictures then symbols (cuneiform) and finally an alphabet |
| Sumerians | hte first people to have a written language |
| Phonecians | the inventors of an alphabet |
| Cuneiform | a form of writing that uses wedges and lines-used by several languages in Fertile Crescent |
