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| Customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. |
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| The first form of writing which used wedge-shaped symbols. |
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| A method of supplying land with water through a network of canals. |
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| The king best known for his code of laws. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth laws. |
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| an organized list of laws and rules. |
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| A group of people traveling together across the dessert. |
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| many territories and peoples controlled by one government. |
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| The land between the Tigris and Euphrates River which was the birthplace of Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. |
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| A fertile region in Southeastern Asia that includes the region of Mesopotamia. |
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| An ancient Mesopotamian empire that extended throughout the Fertile Crescent in the 1700's B.C. whose king was Hammurabi. |
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| A professional writer. boys would study from the time they were 8 years old until they were in their twenty's to become scribes. |
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| A calendar that began the year Jesus was born. |
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| how high the ground is. Examples being mountain tops and the bottom of the oceans. |
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| Long periods of dry weather. |
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| A person who studies objects and writings of ancient people. |
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| A wedge shaped tool used on tablets to create cuneiform. |
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| Where two rivers come together. |
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| smooth surfaces made of clay |
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| symbols used to show and actual thing. |
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| made The Hanging Gardens for his wife Amytis because she missed her home land of Persia. |
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| How many laws were included in Hammurabi's code? |
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| 282 laws, number 13 was not included because it was considered and unlucky numbers. and 66 to 99 are missing. |
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