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Fertile Crescent
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Fertile area between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea, shaped like a crescent
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The Code of Hammurabi
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The laws that the people of Sumer had to abide by; the purpose of which was to unify the diverse groups within the empire under a single, uniform code.
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Cuneiform
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Sumerian writing; named for its wedge-shaped letters
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Zoroaster
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A Persian prophet, who offered an inspirational answer as to why there was so much evil in the world
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Persia
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the area that originally consisted of the land east of the fertile crescent, among the mountains and plateaus of Iran. In 550 B.C, they became the new power arising in Southwest Asia, and the empire then grew to be immense.
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