Mesopotamia

2. place where people worshiped their gods
6. surrounded city-states in Mesopotamia
7. people inscribed information on tablets made from this material
9. Hammurabi was a leader of this place
10. Sumerians created a number system (seconds, minutes, etc) from this number
12. a person who writes or copies documents
13. Mesopotamia was also called the ________ of civilization
14. person at the top of the social pyramid
16. a word that means “land between two rivers”
18. the use of canals and dams to water fields for farming

1. material that buildings were made out of
3. Mesopotamian people who were known as being warriors
4. A legal code that covered most aspects of daily life
5. the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were considered one of the Seven _________ of the World
8. people who create jewelry, pottery, and other skilled crafts
9. people who could attend school
11. the region was known as the “fertile _________”
13. the world's first writing system
15. Akkadian leader who conquered all of Mesopotamia to create the world's first empire
17. present day country occupying the lands of Mesopotamia