| A | B |
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| Babylonians 1 | Created the first written public laws, Hammurabi's code, which described the rules and consequences for social behavior (1) |
| Sumerians 1 | Created the first civilization by establishing an agricultural community in the Mesopotamia region.(1) |
| Assyrians 1 | Developed advanced weapons and strategies, which they used to conquer the ancient world.(1) |
| Sumerians 2 | Built the magnificent ziggurat (2) |
| Sumerians 2 | Developed cuneiform, the earliest form of writing (2) |
| Hebrews 1 | First to believe in and spread the concept of one God (1) |
| Sumerians 3 | Developed the first irrigation systems, with dikes and canals. (3) |
| Hebrews 2 | Wrote the Torah and Old Testament, the first half of the Bible (2) |
| Phoenicians 1 | Developed the first alphabet (1) |
| Sumerians 4 | Created the first wheeled vehicles for transporting goods and people (4) |
| Phoenicians 2 | Experts in trade and sailing who created travel logs and maps of the ancient world (2) |
| Chaldeans/Neo Babylonians 4 | Created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. (4) |
| Assyrians 3 | Created a battering ram to help in battle.(3) |
| Babylonians 3 | Was the center of trade for Mesopotamia (3) |
| Akkadians 1 | The first empire of the Fertile Crescent (1) |
| Akkadians 2 | Created the stele (2) |
