Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of ___
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- A member of a people who inhabited ancient ___ (plural)
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- An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea
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- The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
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- A sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player
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- A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
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- System of faith and worship
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- The commercial exchange of goods and services
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- A member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C (plural)
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- A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
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- Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia
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- A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea
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- The main city of ancient Phoenicia
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