| A | B |
|---|
| scribe | a professional writter |
| myth | a set of beliefs |
| polytheism | worshiping many gods |
| Mesopotamia | from greek meaning "between the rivers" |
| zigurat | the heart of the city- with a temple pyramid to their main god |
| bazaars | a market selling different kinds of goods |
| battering ram | a powerful weapon witha wooden beam mounted on wheels |
| Hammurabi Code | an organized list of laws and rules |
| cuneiform | a type of writing using wedges and lines used on tablets of clay |
| summarian religion | gods would punish people who angered them |
| city states | a city with its own government and king |
| fertile crescent | the region in Southwest Asia site of first civilizations |
| Empire | many territories and peoples controlled by one government |
| caravan | a group of traders traveling together |
| Assyria | a small kingdom north of Babylon |
| Assyri'a capital | Nineveh |
| the Medes and Chaldeans | defeated the Assyrians in 612 BC |
| capital of New Babylonian Empire | Babylon |
| the New Babylonian Empire was conquered by | the Persians |
| Hammurabi | the king of Babylon and Babylonian Empire |
| Babyloniand took over control of Sumer | in 1700 BC |
| the Sumer cities arose | in 3500 BC |
| the Sumer cities split | in 2300 BC |
| the Sumer cities lost power | in 2000 BC |
| the Babylonian empire conquered | the cities of Sumer and Asia Minor |
| the Babylonian Empire was destroyed | in 1600 BC |
