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Darrell Izard

Mespotamia. Darrell Izard. Tigris. Tigris - is the eastern member of the two great lakes. Euphrates is neighbor. EUPHRATES. Euphrates - is the western member of two great lakes. Tigris is neighbor. Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia – is the name of the Tigris- Euphrates region. Sargon.

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Darrell Izard

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  1. Mespotamia Darrell Izard

  2. Tigris • Tigris - is the eastern member of the two great lakes. Euphrates is neighbor.

  3. EUPHRATES • Euphrates - is the western member of two great lakes. Tigris is neighbor.

  4. Mesopotamia • Mesopotamia – is the name of the Tigris- Euphrates region.

  5. Sargon • Sargon – also known as “The Great King”.Was an Akkadian emperor that was famous for his conquest of the Sumerian-city states.

  6. sumer • "Land of the Lords of Brightness", [1][2]Akkadian: Šumeru; possibly Biblical Shinar) was a civilization and historical region in southern Iraq (Mesopotamia).

  7. Babylon • the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia

  8. Ur • was a city in ancient Sumer, located at the site of modern Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.[

  9. Cuneiform • is the earliest known writing system in the world

  10. Epic of Gilgamesh • is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq and is among the earliest known works of literary writings

  11. Ziggurat • transliterated): ziqqurat, of zaqāru "to build on a raised area") were massive pyramidal temples built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

  12. Code of Hammurabi • is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon

  13. Assyrians • (frequently known as Assyrians in English, besides Syrians, Syriacs, Syrian Christians, Syriac Christians, Suroye/Suryoye[13] and other variants, see names of Syriac Christians) are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western Iran, and Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia.[14]

  14. Tyre • Tyre (automotive), the outer part of a wheel in British English (equivalent to tire in American English)

  15. Hammurabi • the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, "paternal kinsman," and Rāpi, "healer"; (ca. 1728 – 1686 BC middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon

  16. Nineveh • Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew:נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic:نينوى, Naīnuwa), an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq.

  17. Chaldeans • Greek Χαλδαία, Chaldaia; Akkadian māt Kaldu, Hebrewכשדים, Kaśdim[1]; Arabicكلدان‎, Kāldān[2][3]), "the Chaldees" of the KJVOld Testament, was a Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia, which became an independent kingdom under the Chaldees.

  18. Persian Gulf • The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.[1] Historically and commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes controversially referred to as the Arabian Gulf by most Arab states[2] or simply The Gulf, although neither of the latter two terms is recognized internationally.

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