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mesopotamis
Question | Answer |
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Hammurabi | a Babylonian king who made a code of 282 laws |
monarch | a ruler of a kingdon or empire |
chariot | a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle |
Nebuchadnezzar | a famous chaldean king who rebuilt babylon into a beautiful |
alphabet | a set of letters that can be combined to foorm words |
architecture | the science of building |
ziggurat | a pyramid-shaped temple in sumer |
scribe | a writer |
cuneiform | the world first system of writing; developed in sumer |
pictograph | a picture symbol |
epics | long poems that tell the stories of heroes |
social hierarchy | the divisions of society by rank or class |
rural | a countryside area |