Mesopotamia

4. In Sumer, the smallest unit of weight was a corn of ____.
6. A group of nations under one government.
8. Made the strongest weapons of their time.
9. The epic of Gilgamesh suggests that ancient civilizations remembered a great ____ from the distant past.
14. A king named ____ rebuilt the ziggurat in Ur.
15. Created the largest empire the world had ever known.
17. King of the Amorites.
18. Sumerians used the cycles of the ____ to create a twelve-month calendar.
19. The prophet God sent to Nineveh.
20. The capital of the Assyrian empire.

1. Sumerian schools were called ____ houses.
2. The worship of many gods.
3. Sumerians believed that only a ____ could communicate directly with the gods.
5. The ruling son who saw the handwriting on the wall in Babylon.
7. A group of warriors who stood in close formation during battle.
10. A word that comes from the Latin words for "wedged shaped."
11. Established the very first known empire.
12. Only priestesses and female members of the ____ family had permission to read and write.
13. The river that ran straight through the city of Babylon.
16. Sumerians created a number system based on the number____.