Ancient Mesopotamia Vocab!

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Across
  1. 4. wanderers who traveled from place to place without a permanent home
  2. 6. famous story written in cuneiform, The Epic of _______.
  3. 7. cuneiform started as _________
  4. 9. worshipping multiple gods or deities
  5. 11. Kingdom Gilgamesh ruled
  6. 12. crescent An area of fertile land in the Middle East, located around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  7. 13. one of the earliest forms of writing, using wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets
  8. 15. cuneiform is one of the most important inventions!
  9. 17. ziggurats were located in the ____ of the city
  10. 22. Group of states or city-states under a single rulers
  11. 23. an invention that the Sumerians create that helps TRANSPORT us around today!
  12. 25. states serving as the basic units of Sumerian civilization
  13. 26. Gilgamesh's best friend
Down
  1. 1. temples believed to be the homes of the gods and goddesses who ruled the city
  2. 2. what did Sumerians made their houses out of
  3. 3. an invention created by the Sumerians
  4. 5. scribes were only ________ boys
  5. 8. Sumer is located in _____ Mesopotamia
  6. 9. Controlled by men and generally favored men
  7. 10. cuneiform tablets were baked in the ______
  8. 14. what Gilgamesh searches for
  9. 16. a form of government where priests ruled in the name of a god or gods
  10. 18. "an ______ for an ________"
  11. 19. scribes were highly ___________ in society
  12. 20. Hammurabi ruled Babylon; created a strict code of laws
  13. 21. means "land between two rivers"
  14. 23. shaped what does "cuneiform" mean
  15. 24. of Hammurabi strict set of laws