| A | B |
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| empire | an area of many territories and people that were controlled by one government |
| caravan | groups of travelers coming and going from the cities of Sumer to the south of and Akkad to the north, stopped in Babylon |
| bazaar | markets where you could buy cotton cloth from India and spices from Egypt. |
| Babylonia | empire created by king Hammurabi, when he united the cities of Sumer |
| New Babylonian empire | Babylon rose, after having been destroyed by the Assyrians, under the Chaldeans. Its greatest king was Nebuchadnezzar |
| Nebuchadnezzar II | king that rebuilt the city of Babylon, after the Assyrians had destroyed it. |
| the Epic of Gilgamesh | Several clay tablets containing a long narrative, poem or epic. It told of the Sumerian hero-king Gilgamesh |
| King Sargon II of Assyria | one of many kings who ruled Mesopotamia after the fall of Sumer |
| Babylonians and the Assyrians had two things in common: | quest for riches and were vicious warriors |
