B. After 1500 B.C. the Near East entered a period of empire building. Each of these empires developed distinctive characteristics. Find the empire in the drop-down list beside the corresponding characteristic. There is only one empire for each characteristic.

1. development of a substantial iron industry
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2. use of terror to govern the empire
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3. power based on sea trade
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4. rebuilding of Babylon
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5. Aramaic as uniform language of government
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