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20 Cards in this Set
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Mesopotamian river
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Tigris
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Near Eastern goddess of love and fertility
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Ishtar
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Persian capital city
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Persepolis
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Assyrian king
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Ashurnasirpal
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Sasanian capital
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Cresiphon
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Sumerian inlaid panel
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Standard of Ur
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multitiered structure thought to have served as a temple platform
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ziggurat
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site of Assyrian Palace of Sargon II
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Khorsabad
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Persian royal audience hall
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apadana
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ruler who codified Babylonian laws
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stele
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Sumerian hero who struggled with a lion
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Gilgamesh
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governor of Lagash
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Gudea
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Akkadian ruler
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Naram-Sin
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stone monument with relief carving
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Hammurabi
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Babylonian monument that uses the arch and glazed tiles
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Ishtar Gate
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arched wall decoration having no actual openings
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blind arcade
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winged, human-headed bull
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lamassu
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site of ziggurat
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Ur
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Sasanian king
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Shapur I
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wedge-shaped signs as writing
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cuneiform
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