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Capital was Babylon

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Amorite/Babylonians

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Capital was Damascus

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Arameans

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City established by Nimrod

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Babylonians

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Code of Hammurabi

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Amorites/Babylonians

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Considered greatest traders of the ancient world

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Phoenicians

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Considered the world’s first civilization

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Sumerians

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Created the first library

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Assyrians

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Credited with the birth of astrology

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Babylonians

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“Crossroads of Civilization”

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Arameans

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Developed a numbering system based on 60

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Sumerians

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Developed first known form of writing

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Sumerians

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Developed the process of smelting iron ore

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Phoenicians

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Descendants of Shem

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Arameans

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Epic of Gilgamesh is an example of their literature

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Amorites/Babylonians

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First Babylonian Empire

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Amorites

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First civilization (after the flood)

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Sumerians

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First empire whose capital was Akkad

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Akkadians

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First recorded treaty was between this culture and Egypt

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Hittites

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First standing army

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Assyrians

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Kingdom that covered all of Mesopotamia

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Amorites/Babylonians

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Loved north of the Black Sea and then moved into Anatolia

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Hittites

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Mail service

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Assyrians

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Merchants by land

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Arameans

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Originators of the alphabet

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Phoenicians

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Purple people

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Phoenicians

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Shipbuilders

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Phoenicians

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Used the wheel

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Sumerians

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Wood was a valuable natural resource

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Phoenicians

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Which civilization built a system of roads?

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Assyrians

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Which civilizations developed a written language?

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Sumerians and Phoenicians

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31
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Which civilizations worked with iron?

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Hittites and Assyrians

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Ancient name for Asia Minor

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Anatolia

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Belief that the positions and movements of the stars and planets can affect or predict life on earth

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Astrology

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High level of cultural and technological development, especially when systems of writing and record-keeping have been created

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Civilization

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Pay back an equal amount for an injury or loss

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Compensate

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Payment that conquered people pay to the conquerors

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Tribute

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Pictures that stand for words

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Pictographs

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Process of extracting metal from ore

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Smelting

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Study of the universe, including the movement of the stars and planets

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Astronomy

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Wedge-shaped stone in an arch that causes the arch to lock together

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Keystone

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Writing consisting of shapes and lines produced by using a wedge-shaped instrument of a clay tablet

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Cuneiform

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Adopted most of their culture from Sumer

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Babylonians

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City

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Complex cultural institution in which humans have core values and a desire to improve the quality of their existence

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Civilization

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Human existence lived in cities or under their influence

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Core values

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Beliefs that are shared by the members of a group about what is most important in life

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Creation Mandate

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The command for man to control the earth by exercising preeminence over it

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Culture

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Physical and mental environment developed through human thought and labor

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Divine providence

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There is no event out of God’s control or that does not accomplish His purpose

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Divine sovereignty

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God is in complete and permanent authority over the world

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Human depravity

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Every aspect of every human has been stained by the Fall

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Image of God

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Humans possess qualities that reflect part of God’s own personality

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Nation

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Large group of people who have a common land area, customs and language

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Organization

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Refers to a system of rules, regulations, and accountability that governs those living in a city

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Specialization

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Division of labor that is part of the culture of every city

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Table of Nations

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List in Genesis of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth according to the nations that came from their families

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Worldview

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Perspective from which we may examine and interpret the universe and everything in it

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Farming; growing crops and raising livestock

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Agriculture

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Moving from place to place with no permanent home

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Nomadic

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An arch-shaped area in the Middle East from the Persian Gulf through the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys and along the Mediterranean Sea

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Fertile Crescent

60
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A high level of cultural and technological development, especially when systems of writing and record – keeping have been created

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Civilization

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Exchanging goods or services with other people

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Trade

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The eastern part of the Fertile Crescent is sometimes called

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Mesopotamia

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What was one food source that was not available to the nomadic people in the Fertile Crescent?

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Potatoes

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Why were people able to begin trading with others in the area?

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They had extra food

65
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Which civilization was not develop in the Fertile Crescent?

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Minoans

66
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Hey wedge-shaped instrument for writing

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Stylus

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Temple-tower that was the center of Sumerian cities

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Ziggurat

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Writing consisting of shapes and lines produced by using a wedge shaped instrument on a clay tablet

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Cuneiform

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The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

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Mesopotamia

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A language related to Arabic and Hebrew

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Semitic

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Oh wedge shaped stone in an arch that causes the arch to lock together

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Keystone

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Professional writers

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Scribes

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Pictures that stand for words

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Pictographs

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The first group of people to live in Mesopotamia were the

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Sumerians

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These people in Sumeria eventually became so powerful that they became kings and ruled in large areas

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Priests

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The Sumerian numbering system that is still used today is based on the number

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60

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The belief that the positions and movements of te stars and planets can affect or predict life on earth

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Astrology

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A prediction of a person’s future based on a diagram of the stars and planets at a given moment

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Horoscope

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The study of the universe, including the movement of the stars and planets

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Astronomy

80
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The most impressive opening in the wall around Babylon; named in honor of a goddess

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Gate of Ishtar

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A set of laws and punishments developed by the king of Babylonia

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Code of Hammurabi

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Kingdom that covered all of Mesopotamia, ruled by King Hammurabi

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Babylonia

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Building with irrigated terraces planted with trees and flowers and having pools and fountains; on of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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From where did the Babylonians adopt most of their culture?

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Sumerians

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A man put out the eye of another man. The punishment depended on the class of the victim. For which class of victim was the punishment one gold mina?

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A freed man

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A foreign soldier hired by another country to fight in its army

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Mercenary

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A soldier who returns home and resumes his life when the fighting is over

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Citizen-soldier

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Composed of sons uses who choose the army as a career; when they are not fighting, they are training

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Standing army

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Introduced trained horses and chariots to the Mesopotamian region

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Mitanni Kingdom

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Payment that all conquered people were required to pay to the conquerors

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Tribute

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What was the name of Assyria’s original capital?

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Ashur

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How did the governors send reports to the king?

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Messengers on horseback

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Of what material were the Assyrians’ weapons made?

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Iron

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The ancient name for Asia Minor; known as Turkey today

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Anatolia

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The science and technology of metals

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Metallurgy

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Migrant peasants who lived north of the Black Sea and then moved into Anatolia

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Hittites

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Pay back an equal amount for an injury or loss

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Compensate

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The capital of the Hittite Kingdom

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Hattusa

99
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The process of extracting metal from ore

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Smelting

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What was one of the Hittite Civilization’s great gifts to humankind?

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Learning how to smelt iron ore

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Who united the Hittite city-states into an empire that included most of present-day Turkey?

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Labarnas

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The first recorded treaty between two great powers involved what empires?

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Egypt and the Hittites

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