VOCAB WORDS

2. believing in one God
9. person who moves from place to place in search of food
10. Period,the final era of prehistory, which began about 9000.b.c.; also called the New Stone Age
11. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
12. system of ranking groups
14. a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
15. the way of life of a society, which is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience
16. believing in many Gods

1. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
3. to arrange or set down in writing
4. Period,the era of prehistory that lasted from at least 2 million b.c. to about 9000 b.c.; also called the Old Stone Age
5. a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages
6. ruling family
7. (1792 B.C.–1750 B.C.) Hammurabi became the first king of the Babylonian empire. He inherited the power from his father, who extended Babylon’s control across Mesopotamia. Hammurabi is known for writing the first code of law in recorded history.
8. a complex, highly organized social order
13. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds