Fertile Crescent
This was the most popular building technique used at the beginning of civilization.
mud-brick building
Rectangular platforms that are stacked together making this huge pyramid-like structure.
ziggurat
These two kings ruled the first and second ages of Babylonia with intelligence and authority.
Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II
The belief in one God, which is the key to Judaism.
Monotheism
The practice of owning someone as property.
Slavery
At the beginning of Mesopotamian civilization, the main job of the people at first was this.
Farming
This practice of worshipping many gods was started by the Sumerians.
polytheism
This was the greatest goal of the Assyrians in becoming a great empire.
War and conquering everything.
The wise king who would build God's temple in the city of Jerusalem.
Solomon
A professional writer, or recorder of daily events.
scribe
To assist with crops, the early people invented this technique to water them.
irrigation
This was the first permanent form of writing created by the Sumerians.
cuneiform
Ashurbanipal stored great amounts of knowledge in a library located in this city.
Nineveh
The main trading city of the Phoenicians who mastered the waves through expert sailing and navigation.
Carthage
People who come from the same family line.
Descendant
The villages of Uruk, Kish, Lagash, Nippur, Umma, and Ur grew to become cities that have their own government named this.
city-states
This king, along with his daughter Enheduanna, made the first empire of Akkad,
Sargon
The Hammurabi Code had this many laws recorded in it.
282
This group of people invented and mastered the usage of coin bartering to make trading much better.
Lydians
A ruling family.
Dynasty
The Fertile Crescent rests between these two rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates
The Sumerians adopted this language in addition to their own.
Hebrew
The last of Babylonia would be conquered by the Persians during this year.
539 B.C.
The "Father" of Judaism.
Abraham
An agreement made between two sides.
Covenant