Fertile Crescent Empires

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Across
  1. 5. who is the the highest-ranking leader of a group of people
  2. 6. area between Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  3. 7. this person advised the people on how to act to please the god
  4. 10. This empire was located in northern Mesopotamia, an area of rolling hills
  5. 12. He believed that a code of law would help him control all his lands.
  6. 14. Assyrian king who ruled almost all of the Fertile Crescent.
Down
  1. 1. The Assyrians attacked city walls with it
  2. 2. Sargon’s empire was called the Empire.
  3. 3. these people developed the first writing system
  4. 4. ruler of an empire
  5. 8. many different lands and peoples brought under the control of one ruler
  6. 9. The people who specialized in writing were called
  7. 11. Each governor had to send _______ to the Assyrian emperor.
  8. 13. this device was the first important tool invented to help farmers.