| A | B |
|---|
| Semitic | Relating to Hebrew or Arabic |
| Code | Grouping together of laws |
| Hittites | Group of people to use the shekel as payment and first group to use iron weapons |
| Cavalry | Unit of soldiers on horses |
| Assyrians | Group of people to use torture as an army practice |
| Chaldeans | Group known for astronomy and who could predict solar and lunar eclipses |
| Persians | Group that defeated the Medes |
| Akkadians | First group of people to establish a kingdom in the region |
| Babylonians | Group of people who had very harsh punishments |
| Avesta | Religious book of the Persians |
| Dualism | Religion that has two competing gods |
| Epic | Long poem that tells a story |
| Eyes and Ears of the King | Inspectors for the Persian rulers |
| Aqueduct | Long canal type developed to carry water |
| Ahriman | God of evil and darknerss |
| Zoroaster | Founder of the Persian religion |
| Amytis | Wife of Nebuchadnezzar |
| Sargon | King of the Akkadians |
| Cyrus | First King of Persia |
| Marduk | Chief god of the Babylonians |
| Ishtar | Goddess of the gates to Babylon |
| Hammurabi | King of the Babylonians |
| Gilgamesh | Sumerian King |
| Darius | Known as the Great Organizer |
| Nebuchadnezzar | King of the Chaldeans |
| Ashur | Chief god of the Assyrians |
| Xerxes | Persian King who led Persia to defeat at the hands of the Greeks |
| Ahura-Mazda | God of good and light |
| Revealed | Religion that has a book to show the way to eternity |
| Eschatological | Doctrine of final things in the Persian religion |
| Royal Road | Connected Susa to Sardis |
| Nineveh | Capital of the Assyrians |
| Chariots | Used by the Assyrians |
