Mesopotamia
Across
- 2. the name of the temple of the gods
- 4. the western most river of Mesopotamia
- 7. the name of arc of land stretching from the Persian Gulf to Mediterranean that is very fertile
- 10. to worship many gods
- 11. the writing of the Mesopotamians
- 13. this man creates the world's first EMPIRE
- 14. the Sumerians invented the _____...which helps the world go round
Down
- 1. Mesopotamian civilization was divided into independent _____ _____ each with its own king
- 3. the king who codified Mesopotamian law
- 5. the eastern most river of Mesopotamia
- 6. "Land Between the Rivers"
- 8. an "epic" story of a warrior king and a great flood like that of the Bible
- 9. another Fertile Crescent people that gave the world a law code...a moral one, not civil one
- 12. the farmers of the Fertile Crescent relied upon the annual ____ of the rivers for good soil