Ancient Mesopotamia

3. an independent city — and sometimes its surrounding land — which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries
5. an ancient Babylonian king known for his code of laws
7. a system of math based on the number 60
8. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
9. the first system of writing
10. cuneiform was pressed into tablets made of this material
11. the first civilization to use wheeled carts
13. an ancient Sumerian king and the main character of the oldest written story
15. the people that defeated the Sumerians
16. a long poem or other work of art celebrating heroic feats
17. the people that defeated the Assyrians
19. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels

1. a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
2. a pyramid-like temple and government center, typically found at the center of the Mesopotamian city-state
4. worshipping many gods
6. a biblical king of Babylon credited with building the Hanging Gardens
12. the shape commonly found in cuneiform writing
14. The land between the rivers
18. a job for someone skilled in writing