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Hammurabi
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Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
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scribe
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In the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to read and write using cuneiform, hieroglyphics, or other early cumber stone systems.
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Ziggurat
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A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. Function is unknown but linked to religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamia
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Amulet
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Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil. Found frequently in archaeological excavations in Mesopotamia.
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Hammurabi
Definition
Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
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Hammurabi
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Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
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holocene
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the geological era since the end of the great ice age
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megaliths
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structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes.
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Babylon
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The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia.
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Sumerians
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The people who dominated the Southern Mesopotamia. Responsible for many fundamentals of Mesopotamia culture, such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions. First to develop written records
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Semitic
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family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. (Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician)
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city-state
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A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia( farms, then towns, then city states), Archaic and classical Greece, Phoenicia and early Italy.
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cuneiform
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a system of writing in wedge shaped symbols
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Mesopotamia civiliation
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developed high degree of social division, a hierarchy, in which women lost standing. Gods embodied natural forces and were worshiped through public, state directed, centered rituals
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