| A | B |
| Traded purple dye (indigo) | Phoenicians |
| Many gods | Polytheism |
| found at the Tigris and Euphrates river | Mesopotamia |
| One god | monotheism |
| dynasty | line of rulers froms same family |
| first written law code | code of Hammurabi |
| moving water from one place to another | irrigation |
| book containing the 10 commandments | Torah |
| lived in the upper Nile river valley | Nubia |
| had Pharoahs as leaders | Egyptians |
| first form of writing | pictograms |
| the Sumerians had this form of writing | Cuneiform |