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mesopotamis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |