Assyrians
Southwest Asian people who built an empire that reached its height during the 7th and 8th centuries BCE, Powerful Army, well structured state
Cuneiform
Written language of the Sumerians, probably first written script in world
Gilgamesh
Legendary king of the Mesopotamian city-state of Urak
Epic of Gilgamesh
World's oldest complete epic literary masterpiece
Hebrews
Semitic speaking Nomadic tribe, influential for monothiestic belief in Yahweh
Mesopotamia
Between the Rivers"- Tigris and Euphrates, Sumer and Akkad were two of the earliest societies
Patriarch
Leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, split with the Pope and Roman Catholic Church
Sumerians
Earliest Mesopotamian society
Sumer
An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.
Hammurabi
King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law.
Israelites
The early ancestors of the Jewish people
Jews
Term originally used to describe the people who resettled in the area of Judah following the Babylonian Exile; most commonly used to refer to followers of Judaism, Monothiestic
Phoenicians
Important trading people who lived on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, started the greek alphabet
Hittites
A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria