Mesopotamia Unit Review

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Across
  1. 1. Sumerians based their mathematical system on this number
  2. 4. kept the city-state operating
  3. 9. a writer
  4. 10. body of water at the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
  5. 11. Hammurabi’s was topped with a picture of him receiving his laws from the gods
  6. 12. human-made waterways
  7. 13. battles were fought to protect natural resources, trade routes, and this
  8. 15. first city in the world (it’s urban)
  9. 17. areas in the city
  10. 22. King from Uruk and the world’s first super hero
  11. 25. Phoenicians invented the one the English one is based on
  12. 26. Assyrians were experts as this style of war
  13. 28. communicated with the gods for the Sumerians
  14. 30. ancient traders and makers of royal purple
  15. 31. worshipping many gods
Down
  1. 1. the division of society into ranks or positions
  2. 2. Sargon’s style of government
  3. 3. known for being fierce in battle
  4. 5. land with different territories and people under one ruler
  5. 6. Hammurabi’s was a set of 282
  6. 7. world’s first writing system
  7. 8. temple at the center of Mesopotamian cities
  8. 11. Akkadian emperor of the world’s first empire
  9. 14. supplying water to land
  10. 16. shape of the large area of fertile land that Mesopotamia was a part of
  11. 18. the one built in Nineveh had 30,000 clay tablets, including a copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh
  12. 19. fertile soil that comes from the river bottom during flooding
  13. 20. this Mesopotamia invention made transportation easier
  14. 21. these made the Assyrians faster in battle
  15. 23. areas in the country, farming areas
  16. 24. Babylonian king who created the first law code
  17. 27. weapons that were stronger than copper and tin weapons
  18. 29. each city had one and built a temple in the city center to honor it