| A | B |
|---|
| Irrigation | the process of bringing water to plants |
| Artisan | A worker with a specific skill, example: basketweaver |
| Surplus | Having more than needed |
| Domestication | breeding and raising animals |
| Fertile Crescent | land area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers birth place of civilization |
| Scribes | professional cunieform writers |
| Mesopotamia | Greek translation: land between two rivers |
| Ziggurat | Sumerian temple |
| Myth | A story dealing with monsters, heroes and the supernatural |
| Babylon | Capital city of Babylonia |
| Nineveh | Capital city of Assyrian empire |
| Nebuchadnezzar | ruler of New Babylonia |
| Chaldeans | teamed up with Medes to defeat the Assyrians |
| Cuneiform | ancient sumerian symbol writing |
| Hanging Gardens of Babylon | built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his favorite wife |
| King Hammurabi | First code of written laws |
| Code | a list of organized laws |
| Polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| Monotheism | the belief in one god |
| Matriachal | A social system in which power and money is passed down from mother to daughter |
| Patriachal | money and power passed from father to son |
| Moses | lead the Israelites out of Egypt into the desert |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | translated ancient Phoenician to Hebrew |
| Phoenicians | Ruled the sea, big traders |
| Cyrus the Great | led the Persians |
| Torah | holy book of Judaism |
| Nineveh | Capital city of Assyria |
