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- 3. the Phoenicians developed a language system using symbols that can be rearranged to make different words (e.g. ABC)
- 5. traders who made a royal color of purple
- 9. Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon during this empire
- 10. the first empire to use iron weapons
- 11. a term used for killing an important person, especially a king or political leader
- 13. helpful wheeled carts used for fighting in battle
- 15. this empire had a very strong, organized army
- 16. conquered the fertile crescent in 539 and had the biggest empire the world had ever seen
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- 1. the first letters of each word in our phrase 'sam and bob heard...'
- 2. a land or territory composed of different peoples under rule of one leader
- 4. Hammurabi was a leader of this empire
- 6. this empire was the first one created
- 7. the sea where the Phoenicians did most of their trading
- 8. the money collected from people in an empire to help pay for things like roads
- 12. not really an empire, but the first civilization
- 14. the empire that ruled Babylon for 400 years