ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

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Across
  1. 7. "between the rivers"
  2. 9. created first permanent army and empire
  3. 10. first great Hebrew king
  4. 12. world's first writing system
  5. 13. arc-shaped are of land in the Middle East
  6. 15. pyramid-shaped temple tower
  7. 18. man-made river that helped control flooding
  8. 19. founder of the Hebrew people
  9. 21. people who wrote and kept records
Down
  1. 1. built the legendary Hanging Gardens
  2. 2. created first written law code and named it after himself
  3. 3. one of the rivers of Mesopotamia
  4. 4. one of the rivers of Mesopotamia
  5. 5. first people to believe in only one god
  6. 6. led the Hebrews out of Egyptian slavery
  7. 8. supplying water to an area of land
  8. 11. only people who could talk with the gods
  9. 14. Sumerians' greatest invention
  10. 16. what the Phoenicians created that helped develop language
  11. 17. most powerful city in Mesopotamia
  12. 18. what the Assyrians used to give them an advantage in battle
  13. 20. first advanced civilization