Ancient History by Letter ‘U’

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City-state in Southern Mesopotamia, site of a large Ziggurat and the capital of the Neo-Sumerian Empire	Ur
Third century Bishop of Rome or Pope, the first of his name	Urban
Neolithic port city in Northern Syria, founded circa 6000 BC, lasted until the Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC	Ugarit
Italic tribal group of central Iron-Age Italy, gave their name to a modern region	Umbri
Prehistoric period of ancient Mesopotamia, spanning roughly 6500 BC - 4000 BC	Ubaid
Non Indo-European language family originating in Northern Eurasia, evolved into modern languages including Hungarian, Finnish and Sami	Uralic
Sumerian city-state famous for it’s territorial wars with Lagash, home of Lugalzagezi, possibly the first Emperor in history	Umma

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Roman name for Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca and veteran of the Trojan Wars	Ulysses
Late Vedic Sanskrit texts, supplied the basis of Hindu philosophy	Upanishads
Ethnic group, originally Turkic peoples from the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, now the largest group in the Xinjiang region of Western China	Uyghur
Sumerian city-state dominant in the 4th Millenium BC, gave it’s name to the period	Uruk
Late Bronze-Age culture of Central Europe named for their burial rituals. Later succeeded by the Celtic Hallstatt culture	Urnfield
Large red rock, central to ancient Aboriginal mythology	Uluru

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