Section 1&2

1. a territory settled and ruled by people from another land
2. where the worlds first civilization around 3300 B.C.
3. a mesopotamian narrative poem that includes a story about a flood that destroys the world
7. A system of social ranking
9. the branch of law that deals with offenses againt others, such as robbery, assult, or murder
10. aggressive emperor of Babylon who rebuilt the city and its defenses
12. system where people pay for goods or services through the exchange of some token of agreed-upon value, such as a coin
15. an area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where civilization of sumer arose

1. The earliest known form of writing; used a series of wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets
2. ruler of Akkad, who conquered sumer in about 2300 B.C. and built the first empire
4. a region of the middle east where civilization first arose
5. in ancient mesopotamia a large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a citys chief god or goddess
6. Persian religious thinker; taught of a single wise god, Ahura Mazda, who struggled with evil, and of a judgment day for each person
8. the branch of law that deals with private rights and matters such as business contracts, property, inheritance, and taxes
11. system where people exchange one set of goods or services of another
13. to arrange or set down in writing
14. king of babylon in about 1790 B.C. codified the laws in his empire
16. a writing system in which each symbol representd a single basic sound