Chapter 4 Mesopotamia

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site of one of the world's first libraries

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Nineveh

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people who study the heavenly bodies

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astronomers

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first large army to use iron weapons

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Assyrians

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pyramid shaped structure with a temple on the top

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ziggurat

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hero of an epic who performs great deeds

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Gilgamesh

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wedge-shaped Sumerian writing

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cuneiform

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organized system of laws

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code

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chief city of Hammurabi's empire

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Babylon

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person skilled in writing

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scribe

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one of the rivers bordering Mesopotamia

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Eurphrates