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Sumer | The first civilization in Mesopotamia. |
Wheel | One of the Sumerians greatest inventions. |
Ziggurats | Huge buildings where the Sumerians met and worshipped. |
Cunniform | Writing invented by the Sumerians. |
Sumerians | They were the first civilizations to go to schools. |
Scribe | This is a person who wrote for someone who didn't know how. |
Hammurabi | The King of Babylonia who wrote "tough" laws. |
Babylonia | The first civilization to have written laws. |
Babylonians | They had astronomers who studied the stars. |
Assyrians | They were skilled fighters. |
Assyrians | They were good at making weapons. |
Assyria | The first civilization to build a library. |
Assyria | The biggest civilization in Mesopotamia. |
Assyrians | They make wall carvings to show their culture and history. |
Tigris River | One of the rivers in Mesopotamia. |
Euphrates River | One of the rivers in Mesopotamia. |
Hammurabi | He create the first written laws. |
Hammurabi | His laws were based on "an eye for an eye." |
Sargon | He was a harsh ruler who unified the city-states in Mesopotamia. |
Stylus | Scribes wrote with this. |
Clay | Scribes wrote on this. |
Scribes | These were the people who learned how to write. |
Iraq | This is the country in Mesopotamia today. |
Sun-Dried Bricks | What most buildings were made of in Mesopotamia. |
Polytheism | The belief in more than one god. |
Priest | This was the most powerful position in Sumer. |
Nomads | People who travel from place to place with no real home. |
Artisan | A person who made goods in Sumer. |