| A | B |
|---|
| Menes | united upper and lower Egypt |
| Ptah-hotep | wrote a book advising young people |
| Giza | pyramids |
| Hatshepsut | Queen who encouraged trade |
| Punt | Egyptian trading partner |
| Ramses II | Extended the empire to Syria |
| Osiris | god of the underworld |
| Isis | goddess who appealed to women |
| Amon-re | Sun god |
| Tutankhamen | tomb discovered in 1922 |
| Akhenaton | rejected all gods but Aton |
| Jean Champollion | deciphered the code of hieroglyphics |
| Rosetta Stone | discovered by Napoleon's army |
| Inanna | Sumerian goddess of love |
| Ku-Baba | woman ruler in Sumer |
| Sargon | Akkadian, conquered Sumer |
| Hammurabi | first written code of laws |
| Assurbanipal | Collected the library at Nineveh |
| Nebuchadnezzar | revived the power of Babylon |
| Cyrus the Great | Founder of the Persian Empire |
| Darius | Organized the Persian government |
| Zoroaster | founder of a monotheistic religion |
| Torah | sacred text of the Hebrews |
| Moses | led the Hebrews back to Canaan |
| David | United the feuding tribes of Israel |
| Solomon | Built a temple in Jerusalem |
| Ten Commandments | Moral code for Jews and Christians |
