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Monarchy

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Order ruled by a king

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Demigod

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Part man part god

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Assyrian Empire

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Lived in Mesopotamia in ancient times

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Fertile Crescent

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Land located between tigris and Euphrates river

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Hammurabi

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King who set a bunch of laws for people to follow

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Babylonian Empire

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Founded by Hammurabi in 1792. The babylonians were the first to know an empire that would change Mesopotamia

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Nebuchadnezzar

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King of the babylonians.

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City-state

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Area walled in of the region. Ruled by a king

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Polytheism

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Belief in more than one god

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10
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Sumer

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First City-states

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Oldest, surviving, and famous stories about a demigod king

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Cuneiform

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Evolved with pictographs and phonographs

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Ziggurat

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Big temple found in the middle of town

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The Hanging Gardens of Babylonian

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Built by Nebuchadnezzar for the enjoyment of his wife

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Code of Hammurabi

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Oldest written book of laws

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