| A | B |
|---|
| Stylus | pencil of Sumarian writing |
| Wickedness | the reason God sent the flood |
| Nile River | longest river in the world |
| Cain | Son of Adam. Killed his brother Abel |
| Patriarchs | Abraham, Isaac, Jacob |
| Downward | History went down because of Adam and Eve's sin |
| Relationship to God | Most important part of people's culture |
| Nation | large group of people who think of themselves as one |
| Hammurabi's laws | punished differently |
| Ur | City Abraham came from |
| Mastabas | early tombs with flat tops |
| Sphinx | large stone statutes with heads of men, rams, or hawks, and the body of a lion |
| Scribe | people who wrote the records for the kings |
| Temples | popular tombs |
| Hieroglyphics | sacred writings in Egypt |
| Babylonian Empire | founded by Hammurabi |
| Shinar | Nona and family lived there |
| Cataracts | rapids in the Nile River |
| Dividing point in history | B.C. Birth of Christ |
| Eve | mother of all |
| Pyramids | tombs |
| Sumerians | first to use the wheel |
| 60 | Sumerian system of dividing time |
| Champollion | solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone |
| Mizraim | Ham's Son, settled in Egypt |
| A.D. | In the year of our Lord |
| irrigation | improved land by Sumerians by watering the crops |
| Visier | Joseph |
| Euphrates | fruitful |
| Abraham | father of Israel |
| Adam | First man created by God |
| Lamech | bragged about killing a man and a boy |
| Hammurabi | King who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule |
| Nimrod | lead building the Tower of Babel |
| Ziggurat | towers built on top of each)) other |
| Mesopotamia | land between rivers |
| Delta | fan shaped area at the end of a river |
| Archaeologists | people who study the remains of cultures |
| Herodotus | a Greek historian |
| Empire | ruler of city or person by another |
| Culture | the way of life by a group of people |
| Mummification | method of preserving dead bodies |
| polytheist | worshipping many Gods |
| Cuneiform | Sumarian wedge-shaping writing |
