Mesopotamia Unit- English

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Across
  1. 4. people who performed religious ceremonies.
  2. 6. the Sumerian system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of words.
  3. 8. a set of letters that can be combined to form written words.
  4. 10. a Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon.
  5. 13. human-made waterways.
  6. 14. long poems that tell the story of a hero.
  7. 16. a division of society by rank or class.
  8. 18. a part or function.
  9. 21. the science of building.
  10. 23. a pyramid-shaped temple tower.
  11. 24. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
  12. 26. the Akkadian king who defeated Sumer and built the world's first empire.
Down
  1. 1. more of something than is needed.
  2. 2. a way of supplying water to an area of land.
  3. 3. a ruler of a kingdom or an empire.
  4. 5. writer.
  5. 7. the worship of many gods.
  6. 9. a wheeled, horse-drawn battle car.
  7. 11. an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks.
  8. 12. a large arc if rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
  9. 15. a political unit consisting of city and the surrounding countryside.
  10. 17. the earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of life.
  11. 19. picture symbols that represented objects such as trees or animals.
  12. 20. a mix of rich soil, water and small rocks.
  13. 22. having to do with the city.
  14. 25. having to do with the countryside.