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The Fertile Crescent-Mesopotamia
King Hammurabi/Hammurabi’s Code
Stela
One of the earliest surviving set of written laws originated by the
Babylonians. Said to have come to the king directly from Marduk,
the patron god of Babylon.
A region in and around the Tigris-Euphrates river system in
which some of the earliest known civilizations formed. It includes
Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia.
A self-governing central city and its surrounding villages who
collectively follow a similar way of life.
One of the earliest systems of writing during the time of the
Sumerians, in which wedge-shaped marks are made with a stylus on
clay tablets.
A tall carved or inscribed stone slab or pillar
Monotheism
The belief in one God.
Polytheism
The belief in many gods.
Judaism
The religion of the Hebrews; it is the world’s oldest monotheistic
religion.
Fertile arc-shaped area by the Mediterranean which covers Biblical
lands, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile Rivers
Mesopotamia/Land Between Two Rivers
City-State
cuneiform
Fertile Crescent
Sumer/Sumerians
ziggurats
One of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in
Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago
Temples for to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient
Mesopotamia.
Babylonia/Babylonians
Ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600
to 1200 B.C.
Sargon the Great of Akkad
Created the first empire with a strong, permanent army
Hittites
Peoples indigenous to North Iraq; builders of the great
Mesopotamian civilizations
Assyrians
Chaldeans
An ancient people of Mesopotamia living between the Euphrates
delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert
Dominated Mesopotamia after defeating the Assyrians – King
Nebuchadnezzar II
King Nebuchadnezzar/The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (a
natural wonder of the world)
King Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens in the sixth
century B.C. as a gift to his wife, Amytis, who was homesick for the
beautiful land of her native Media (the northwestern part of
modern-day Iran)
Phoenicians
Sailors and traders at eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
Hebrews
A warlike nomadic people who settled in Canaan and eventually
established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea there.
The oldest surviving epic story, written during Mesopotamian times
on clay tablets about friendship, love, and adventure
The Epic of Gilgamesh