Chapter 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a pyramid shaped temple in Sumer
  2. 5. from Syrian Desert;(612 B.C.) destroyed Nineveh and Assyrian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt Babylon, they admired sumerian culture, BAbylon became center for astronomy, also created calendar and solved complex geometry problems
  3. 6. served the king of Kish, rebelled against the Sumerian leader, took over city, and built city (Akkad) into military power
  4. 8. a picture symbol
  5. 10. a human-made waterway
  6. 12. Code a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
  7. 14. a city area
  8. 15. a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
  9. 16. of labor an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
  10. 17. King of Uruk; became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
  11. 19. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  12. 20. a countryside area
Down
  1. 1. built kingdom in Asia Minor; first people to master ironworking,skillfully used chariots,rule did not last long,
  2. 2. the world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer
  3. 4. ruler of a kingdom or empire
  4. 7. the most famous Chaldean king; rebuilt Babylon, his palace featured the Hanging Gardens
  5. 9. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  6. 11. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  7. 13. Crescent an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
  8. 18. from Northern Mesopotamia; gained control of Babylon, was overrun by invaders,took 300 years to recover, Had strong army→ conquered parts of Egypt, Fertile Crescent, and Asia Minor/looted villages and burned crops/used iron weapons and chariots