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16 Cards in this Set
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Fertile Crescent |
A place where the land is very fertile |
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Hammurabi |
A king who wrote down a set of laws |
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Monothestic |
Worship more than one god or godess |
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Polythestic |
Belief in more than one god. |
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Sumer |
An area in the southern part of Mesopotamia |
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City- State |
A place where villages united to build major irrigation systems, they are ruled by one king. |
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Social class |
A social class is an order based on powerer and wealth |
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Ziggurat |
A huge pyramid shaped temple |
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Akkadian empire |
Best ruler was Sargon, he ruled for 56 years, and claimed to have one 34 battles. |
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Babylonian empire |
Best ruler was Hammurabi, famous for having the first book of written laws. |
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Assyrian empire |
No specific ruler, famous or capturing all of Mesopotamia, parts of Asia Minor, and Egypt. |
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New- Babylonian empire ( Chaldeans) |
Major was Nebuchadnezzar the 2, famous for overtaking the Assyrians. |
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Persian empire |
Major rulers were Cyrus and Darius, famous for overtaking the Babylonians. |
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Human resources |
Specialized jobs |
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Natural resources |
Things you use from nature |
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Capital resource |
Man made tools you use to make other goods. |
