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