Mesopotamia Vocab

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  1. 2. religious belief in more than one god
  2. 5. the belief that kings were part man and part god
  3. 6. written language that evolved from pictographs to phonograms
  4. 9. king of the Babylonian gods
  5. 10. large temple found in the middle of a town
  6. 11. a social order ruled by a king
  7. 13. of Babylon built by Nebuchadnezzar for the enjoyment of his wife, the queen
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  1. 1. Crescent land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  2. 3. king of the Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BCE – 562 BCE. Both the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem's temple are ascribed to him.
  3. 4. important king who developed an overarching set of laws for all citizens to follow
  4. 7. State agricultural area with a walled city in the center of the region, ruled by its own government led by a king
  5. 8. one of the world’s first city-states
  6. 12. of Hammurabi oldest written book of laws in the world