| A | B |
|---|
| Fertile Crescent | stretch of land that provides some of the best farming in Southwest Asia |
| Zhou Dynasty | Chinese Dynasty that had many innovations like roads, coined money, and improvement in trade |
| oracle bones | what Chinese priests would use to ask questions to the gods |
| Sumerians | people of Sumer |
| Enlil | Sumerian god of clouds and air |
| Ziggurat | place of worship as well as a city hall |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | long poem with accounts of Mesopotamian myths and legends |
| Akkadians | a group of Semitic people |
| Hammurabi | Hammurabi's Code |
| Rosetta Stone | Ancient tablet with three different languages |
| Nile River | main water source in Egypt |
| Mediterranean Sea | the Sea which the Nile empties into |
| Menes | strong-willed King of Upper Egypt |
| Pharaoh | Egyptian god-kings |
| Pyramid | Egyptian pharaoh's tomb |
| mummification | the process of emblaming and drying a corpse to prevent it from decay |
| hieroglyphics | ancient system of writing |
| Book of the Dead | book of scrolls intended to guide the soul in afterlife |
| Xia Dynasty | first dynasty of China |
| loess | fertile soil that looks like silt |
