world history

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.
9. a complex, highly organized social order
10. person who moves from place to place in search of food
11. a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages
12. to arrange or set down in writing
13. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds
15. the way of life of a society, which is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience

1. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
2. Period, the final era of prehistory, which began about 9000.b.c.; also called the New Stone Age
3. believing in one god
4. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
5. believing in many gods
8. 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
14. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds
16. a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler