chapter 1 & 2 vocab crossword

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