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