The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is called .
The was a technological innovation that encouraged faster and better-quality ceramic pottery production.
The migrated into Mesopotamia ca. 4000 B.C.E. and created the first civilization in the region.
The method of writing practiced in Mesopotamia was called .
were the form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations.
The first literary epic in western civilization was the .
were massive towers associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes.
A religion that sees gods in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature is called .
The ruler who created an Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia ca. 2400 B.C.E. was .
The first empire to unify all of Mesopotamia ca. 1800 B.C.E. was the empire.
The Babylonian ruler responsible for the codification of laws in Mesopotamia was .
The first pharaoh of Egypt was .
The Egyptian pharaoh of the New Kingdom who attempted to establish a one-god religion was .
were monumental architectural forms associated with Egyptian funerary rituals.
, the practice of preserving the bodies of the dead, reflected the Egyptian interest in extending the afterlife.
The Egyptians used a alphabet based on pictograms.
Agricultural civilizations were characteristically ; that is, they were run by men and based on the assumption that men naturally directed political, economic, and cultural life.
The first African state other than Egypt was the kingdom of .
The Hebrews were a people, a population group that also included Arabs.
The Jews introduced the concept of , the exclusive worship of a single god, into western civilization.
The civilization emerged on the island of Crete ca. 1600 B.C.E.
The kingdom of was the first civilization to emerge on the Greek mainland.
The were a seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Indo-European people who disrupted the Babylonian empire until they were swept away ca. 1200 B.C.E. were the .
