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| Mesopotamia | This area of the Fertile Crescent is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. |
| Ararat | Noah's ark landed on Mount __________. |
| Sumer | The oldest known civilization in the world |
| ruler | Each city-state was independent and had its own ________. |
| stylus | A pencil-like writing stick |
| cuneiform | The wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerians |
| Gilgamesh | The Epic of __________ was a Sumerian poem that resembles the biblical record of the Flood in many ways. |
| sixty | The Sumerian number system was based on ______ digits. |
| bricks | Sumerian building material |
| ziggurat | Sumerian temple |
| scribe | A person who wrote trade information, personal records, and correspondence |
| exposure | The practice of abandoning an unwanted child by leaving it to die |
| Sargon | This man ruled the first empire in history - the Akkadian Empire. |
| lawgiver | Sargon was a great _________. |
| Ur | The capital of the second Sumerian state |
| aristocrats | The privileged or high class |
| sanskrit | The classical language of India which was developed by the Aryans |
| Vedas | Literature written by the Aryans which gave their ideas on many aspects of life |
| Nile | The longest river in the world |
| cataracts | Areas of the Nile where the water rushes over rocky beds |
| Egypt | According to Herodotus, this country was the "gift of the Nile." |
| Etesian | The strong, cool breezes that helped a merchant to be pushed upstream when he raised his sails are called _________ Winds. |
| nomes | Early governments that were responsible for water distribution |
| white | The ruler of Upper Egypt wore a ________ crown. |
| red | The ruler of Lower Egypt wore a _______ crown with a cobra symbol on the front. |
| Menes | The ruler who united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt around 3100 B.C. |
| dynasty | The continuous rule of a country by the same family |
| Ra | The Egyptian sun god |
| Cheops | Pharoah who had the Great Pyramid built around 2600 B.C. |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing |
| papyrus | The Egyptians developed the world's first writing paper from ________ reeds. |
| sphinx | A huge statue of a lion with a man's head |
| Hyksos | A fierce, warlike people from Arabia and Syria that conquered Egypt and ruled it from 1785 to 1580 B.C. |
| Goshen | The fertile area along the Nile Delta that Joseph gave to the seventy members of his family that moved to Egypt from Canaan |
