The system of writing developed by the citizens of Ugarit:

The people that settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C.E. and built a powerful, militaristic kingdom there over the next four hundred years are known as the:

In the book of Judges, the Hebrew people:

The common religion of the Sumerians:

The Hebrew cult of Yahweh emphasized:

“Aegean civilization” was long thought to have been:

The switch from subsistence by food gathering to food production:

The league that influenced Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison as a role model of cooperation and unification was the Achaean League.

The initial shift from village to city inhabitation took place in Mesopotamia, known to the Greeks as “The Land Between the Rivers” and to modern historians as 

Although early writing was produced using pointed sticks, Sumerian scribes c. 3100 B.C.E. advanced writing with durable reeds that: