Mesopotamia Book/Notes

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Across
  1. 2. center of each city state, all great events celebrated here, home of the gods
  2. 5. Sumerians believed they were on this earth to serve the will of who
  3. 6. those who were in charge of the city states
  4. 8. the system that allowed Sumerians to grow crops and have a water supply in their city states
  5. 12. earliest known advanced civilization
  6. 14. this carves out the southern boundary of Mesopotamia
  7. 17. what people in Mesopotamia used instead of the paper we have today
  8. 19. this is the method used that allowed Sumerians to communicated their thoughts, stories and other records
  9. 21. these would have been carpenters, metal workers, jewelers and pottery makers, jobs requiring skills
  10. 22. we referred to the mountainous region to the north as this
Down
  1. 1. each of these operated almost as its own country, with its own gods and government
  2. 3. time period when the Babylonian Empire reached its heights under Hammurabi's rule
  3. 4. when something is changed or improved upon
  4. 7. in present time, this is where you would find the land of Mesopotamia
  5. 9. forms the northern border of Mesopotamia
  6. 10. known for creating a code of law designed to keep order and helps usher in the Golden Age
  7. 11. in order to survive in such a harsh environment, the Sumerians had to learn how to ________ the river
  8. 12. you would have to go school to learn how to become this, recording down events
  9. 13. we referred to the desert region to the south as this
  10. 15. inventions and ideas that are taken by other cultures and improved upon
  11. 16. one of the if not the first known story of the ancient world, about strength and courage
  12. 18. known as the land between the rivers
  13. 20. how and why people live the way the do