Mesopotamia

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  1. 2. = Patron-god of the city of Babylon and one of the most important gods of Mesopotamia. He is often represented as (or with) a snake-dragon.
  2. 4. = Fifth Sumerian king who built defensive walls and temples in Uruk
  3. 5. = Created first empire in Mesopotamia
  4. 6. = Famous Babylonian king who compiled a law code inscribed on a black stone pillar (18th c. BCE)
  5. 8. = Wedge-shaped symbols and pictographs made with a reed stylus on a soft writing surface, developed by the Sumerians
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  1. 1. = Famous Sumerian city-state on the Euphrates River where the first plow was found and the first potter’s wheel invented
  2. 2. = Land between two rivers
  3. 3. = Sumerian stepped pyramid that housed temples and altars to the principal god of the city
  4. 7. = Goddess of love, fertility, and war, also known as Inanna
  5. 9. = Symbolic foundational story about the origins and destiny of humankind