Mesopotamia wordsearch
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- 2. People who formed religious ceremonies
- 5. Another term for cultural diffusion
- 8. Tablet A tablet used to write on
- 10. government-created laws or rules that the people had to follow to keep order
- 11. The belief in one god
- 12. Synonym for countryside
- 13. A religious song or poem that is used to worship a certain god
- 14. A dry barren area of land
- 15. The main person worshipped by a certain religion
- 17. A plant that can be harvested.
- 21. Bringing water to land or crops
- 23. The act of water washing up at very high levels of land
- 24. When Babylonia fell
- 26. A group of individuals that can have certain cultural beliefs
- 27. Social system that has its own practices, morals, and beliefs
- 28. The river located south of the fertile crescent
- 33. Long poem that told tales of heroes
- 34. A pyramid shaped temple tower
- 37. Person mentioned in the mesopotamian bible ( 4th son of Jacob and Leah)
- 38. A land with different territories and people under one rule
- 39. Sumerians created ______ under streets
- 40. Sumerian King
- 42. Cultivate (a plant) for food
- 46. circular object that can be found on cars and trucks
- 48. a complex society shaped by religion, development, and government
- 49. a type of government in which power is transferred by family
- 50. the northern part of Mesopotamia was a _______
- 52. The art of making pots from mud and clay
- 53. The ideas, customs, art, and religion of a society
- 55. The very first king of Mesopotamia
- 56. a main monarch (leader) of a major territorial (land) area
- 63. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 64. A region of land that contains a city and all the countryside around it
- 65. People that trade with others
- 66. A trained military group trained to fight on land
- 67. A long wall that prevents flooding.
- 68. The world's first form of writing
- 70. a region of land that is present day Turkey
- 71. King Sargon’s son
- 72. a healing drug made from the Sumerians
- 74. Man-Made waterways
- 76. Another word for writer
- 77. settled in Mesopotamia at about 12,000 years ago
- 78. A type of fertile soil mixed with tiny rocks
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- 1. The number of people in a certain area
- 3. The diversion of society by rank or class
- 4. Synonym for city-like
- 6. The first empire in Mesopotamia/ Conquered Sumer
- 7. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
- 8. A wheeled horse drawn cart mostly used during battle
- 9. first king of empire was Hammurabi
- 16. More than needed.
- 18. When Babylonia was founded
- 19. trading system in which people exchange goods without using money
- 20. Based standard english off of their language
- 22. independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
- 25. Picture symbols
- 29. A set of letters that can be combined into words
- 30. a civilization that developed on or near a river valley (China/India)
- 31. A body of water that separates Europe and Africa
- 32. a long period of dry weather
- 35. located at the south-east of Mesopotamia
- 36. People that have been taught to write Cuneiform
- 39. The people of southern mesopotamia that got captured by the Akkadians
- 41. The science of building.
- 42. of Labor An arrangement in where a worker specializes in doing a certain task
- 43. Relating to the government or public affairs of a country
- 44. freed the israelites
- 45. Ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 47. The empire that settled in Mesopotamia
- 51. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
- 54. Mesopotamian goddess associated with love and beauty
- 57. A precious gemstone that holds a yellow metallic color
- 58. The belief in many gods
- 59. A farming tool used to loosen up soil
- 60. the first woman writer in history
- 61. The river located North of the fertile crescent
- 62. A tool used to write on clay tablets
- 69. The land between the rivers
- 73. city state that was conquered by Sargon
- 75. Another mesopotamian empire