chapter 1 & 2 vocab crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a mesopotamian narrative poem that includes a story a flood that destroys the world
  2. 11. the earliest known form writing; used a series of wedge-shaped marks an clay tablets
  3. 14. ruler of Akkad, who concquered sumer in about 2300 B.C. and built the first empire
  4. 15. an area between the tigris and euphrates rivers where civilization of sumer arose
  5. 16. aggressive empoeror of babylon who rebuilt the city and its defence
Down
  1. 1. system where people exchange one set of goods or services for another
  2. 3. king babylon in about 1790 B.C; codified the laws in his empire
  3. 4. the branch of law that deals with offenses agains others, such as robbery, assult, or murder
  4. 5. a region in the middle east where cilcilzation first arose
  5. 6. systems where people pay for goods or servicrs through the exchange of some token of agreedupon value, such as a coin
  6. 7. a system of social ranking
  7. 8. in ancient mesopotamia a large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to citys cheif
  8. 9. to arrange or set down writing
  9. 10. persian religious thinker; taught of a single wise god, Ahura Mazda, who struggle with evil, and of a judgement day for each person
  10. 12. where the worlds first civilization arose around 3300 B.C.
  11. 13. a territory settled and ruled by people from another land
  12. 17. the branch of laws that deals with private rightd and matters such as business contracts, property, inheritance, and taxes
  13. 18. a writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound