| A | B |
| 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. |