Ancient Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 3. - people who would travel from place to place
  2. 4. -Mesopotamia has a culture that was ruled by a council of elders or a chief
  3. 8. - large temples city-states were built around
  4. 12. - the Sumerians lack of central government and _________ caused the fall of their civilization
  5. 13. - the Sumerians thought the ___________ was bleak and grim
  6. 15. - who conquered the babylonians?
  7. 16. - what religion were the sumerians?
  8. 17. - most sumerians were merchants, artisans, __________
  9. 18. - theocracies were headed by a _________ (starts with a p)
Down
  1. 1. - made the soil fertile
  2. 2. - who wrote the first written legal code?
  3. 5. - What helped Mesopotamia have an economy?
  4. 6. - what writing system did the Sumerians use?
  5. 7. Tablets - cuneiform was written on
  6. 9. - the first civilization established
  7. 10. - Ancient Mesopotamia thrived because of the Euphrates and what other river?
  8. 11. - Hammurabi was the king of…. (starts with a b)
  9. 12. - land between rivers
  10. 14. Crescent - the region Mesopotamia is on