| A | B |
| Nabopolassar | began the Neo-Babylonian Empire |
| Cunieform | Sumerian writing |
| Sargon | Akkadian ruler that conquered Sumer |
| Mesopotamia | "between the rivers" |
| Samuel Zwemer | "Apostle to Islam" |
| Hammurabi | established the Old Bbylonian Empire |
| death penalty | the foundational civil ordinance |
| Persian | where Henry Martyn did missionary work |
| Nebuchadnezzar | destroyed Jerusalem and carried away its inhimitants |
| astrology | the false belief that heavenly bodies influence the affairs of men |
| Clay | the Sumerians wrote on this |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | world's oldest work of literature outside the Bible |
| edubba | Sumerian School |
| Israel | main highway of the ancient world |