Mesopotamia Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. An occurrence in nature that cannot be explained without science such as rainbows lightning or clouds
  2. 4. Extra food beyond what people need to survive
  3. 7. Code Earliest known written collection of laws that told citizens what was expected of them
  4. 8. of Gilgamesh The story of a legendary Sumerian king; The first written story
  5. 10. Invention of the Assyrians where horses pulled soldiers in battle
  6. 14. Before Christ
  7. 16. Land with different territories or city states under one ruler
  8. 17. and Tigris Rivers The two rivers that Mesopotamia is between
  9. 20. Pyramid The ranking of people in society from highest to lowest
  10. 21. Gardens Gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife with new plants and flowers
  11. 24. Long poems that tell stories of heroes
  12. 26. Gate Gate built by the Neo-Babylonian Empire as a grand entrance to Babylon
  13. 28. Anno Domini
  14. 29. State City and all the countryside around it
  15. 30. The worship of one god
Down
  1. 1. A group with its own language laws culture food supply and protection
  2. 3. King of Babylon
  3. 5. Developed the world’s first civilization
  4. 6. Before the common era
  5. 9. Canal A system that supplies water to farmland to help crops grow
  6. 11. Wheel First used in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians
  7. 12. Tablets What Sumerians wrote their cuneiform on
  8. 13. Land between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  9. 15. The world’s first system of writing
  10. 18. The worship of many gods
  11. 19. A pyramid shaped temple tower
  12. 22. A person trained to write and keep records in Sumer
  13. 23. Common era
  14. 25. Crescent Area of fertile land in Mesopotamia shaped like a quarter moon
  15. 27. Sumerian Invention- a farming tool that uses cattle to pull into and break up the ground