| A | B |
|---|
| Assyrians | first large army to use iron weapons |
| astronomers | people who study the heavenly bodies |
| Gilgamesh | hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds |
| Nineveh | site of one of the world's first libraries |
| ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top |
| scribe | a person who writes in cuneiform |
| Chaldeans | rebelled against the Assyrians |
| Hammurabi | who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life |
| Hanging Gardens | one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| Mesopotamia | land between the rivers |
