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Historic Times Begin
Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the first people to live in southern Mesopotamia | Sumerians |
| a person who could read and write | scribe |
| belief in many gods and goddesses | polytheistic |
| wrote a famous code of laws | Hammurabi |
| wedge-shaped writing in stone tablets | cuneiform |
| city of the hanging gardens; a superpower city-state of its time | Babylon |
| the ruler of a city-state | lugal |
| located in Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; its name means "between two rivers" | Mesopotamia |
| a kind of tall, tiered temple that was built in ancient city-states | ziggurat |
| one of the oldest written stories: "The Epic of _________________" | Gilgamesh |
| belief in one God (examples: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) | monotheism |
| old items that archaeologists search for (tools, weapons, eating utensils, etc.) | artifacts |