SUMERIAN CITIES LARGEST CITIES		REPLACING BRONZE FOR IRON; IT'S STRONGER & ABLE TO BE MADE SHARPER
ZIGGURAT		HAD 20,000 PEOPLE IN THEM
WHY PEOPLE SETTLED ON THE TIGRES & EUPHRATES RIVERS		THE NORTH STAR
SUMERIANS INVENTED THIS		SUMERIAN TEMPLE, PYRAMID SHAPED, MOST HOLY BUILDINGS FOR THEM
SUMERIANS WERE THE FIRST TO HAVE THESE ON THEIR CARTS		RAMPS & ARCHES, PLUS USING CLAY & BRICK TO BUILD WITH
SUMERIANS CREATION OF THIS HELPED THEM BUILD TALLER STRONGER BUILDINGS		FLOODS MADE THE SOIL GREAT FOR FARMING
SUMERIAN MATH WAS BUILT ON THIS NUMBER		WHEELS
THE FIRST RULER TO UNITE MESOPOTAMIAN CITY-STATES		60, WE STILL USE TODAY FOR MINUTES & SECONDS
THIS NEW CITY-STATE CAME TO POWER AROUND 1800 BC		BABYLON
HIS REIGN IS KNOWN AS THE GOLDEN AGE OF BABYLON		ABRAHAM
HAMMURABI'S CODE		THE BIBLE OR TORAH
THIS MADE MESOPOTAMIA & SARGON'S ARMIES STRONGER THAN OTHERS		USING LARGER WOODEN SHIPS WITH SAILS TO SAIL GREATER DISTANCES
HE LED THE HEBREW PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT WHERE THEY'D BEEN SLAVES		PHOENICIANS
THE HEBREW'S HOLY BOOK		WRITING, CUNEIFORM, A 550 LETTER ALPHABET
PHOENICIANS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE INVENTED THIS		HAMMURABI
HEBREWS WERE THE FIRST ANCIENT PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN		A SIMPLE 22 LETTER ALPHABET REPLACING CUNEIFORM
PHOENICIANS WERE THE FIRST TO USE THIS FOR NAVIGATING AT SEA		ONE GOD WHOSE NAME WAS YAWEH
THE FIRST GREAT SAILORS AND TRADERS		MOSES
THE FIRST GREAT HEBREW LEADER, 2340 BC OR SO...		SARGON
PHOENICIANS CHANGED THE WAY SHIPS WERE MADE REPLACING ROWERS		THE FIRST KNOWN SYSTEM OF LAWS