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Gilgamesh was associated with what city?
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Uruk
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Enkidu was...
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Gilgamesh's friend
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The earliest urban societies developed in the
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Fourth millenium BC
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The word Mesopotamia means
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The land between the cities
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The first complex society developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of
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Sumer
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The word Semitic refers to
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A language type
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Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur and Kish were all associated with
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Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamian cultural and political brilliance reached its peak during the reign of
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Hammurabi
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What individual believed that the gods had chosen him to "Promote the welfare of people... [and] to cause justice to prevail in the land?"
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Hammurabi
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The words lex talionis relate to
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The law of retaliation that appears in Hammurabi's Code
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While Hammurabi's code was based on the concept of lex talionis, it was also shaped by
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Social standing
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The Babylonians eventually fell in 1595 BC to the
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Hittites
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The later Mesopotamian people who around 1000 BC built a large empire based on a powerful army with iron weapons and who made extensive use of terror were the
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Assyrians
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A Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century BC by
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Nebuchadnezzar
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The famous hanging gardens of the ancient world were located in
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Babylon
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