23 terms

Terms	Definitions
Nebuchadnezzar	built the Hanging Gardens for his wife
artifacts	things made by humans long ago
epic	long poem
empire	group of many different lands under one ruler
fossil	traces of plants or animals preserved in rock
scribes	record keepers
Epic of Gilgamesh	hero of epic who travels around the world performing great deeds
Nineveh	site of world's first library
astronomer	people who study heavenly bodies
Assyrians	first army to use iron weapons
nomads	people who move from place to place
ziggurat	grand temple with a shrine on top. Looks like a giant square wedding cake~
Hot & Dry	Mesopotamia's climate
Hammurabi	wrote legal code about daily life
historians	people who study and write about the human past
Cuneiform	Sumerian writing system
Bronze	copper + tin
Middle class	artisans, merchants, farmers, fishers
Archaeologists	study artifacts and fossils to learn about the past
Chaldeans	rebelled against the Assyrians
domestication	taming of plans or animals for human use
Trade	helped ideas spread around the world
hereditary	passes from parent to child

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