Chapter 2 Sections 1-2 Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. came from Asia Minor and had an understanding of how to make iron weapons
  2. 7. the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates River
  3. 10. the earliest known form of writing done by the Sumerians
  4. 13. Persian who rejected polytheism for a belief in one god, Ahura Mazda
  5. 14. told story of a great flood that destroyed the world
  6. 16. most likely the first group of people to use wheeled vehicles
Down
  1. 1. the ruler of Persia from 522-4486 BC who was able to unify Persia
  2. 2. the ruler of Babylon who built an empire of nearly all of Mesopotamia
  3. 3. a writing system in which each symbol represents a sound
  4. 4. created the first alphabet
  5. 5. a territory that is ruled by people from another land
  6. 6. the religion of Sumer
  7. 8. the Sumerians had a number system that divided an hour into ________.
  8. 9. the worlds first civilization that developed around 3300 BC in Mesopotamia
  9. 11. used to carry water from rivers to fields
  10. 12. the set of rules and laws created by Hammurabi
  11. 15. the ruler of Akkad who built the first empire