Mesopotamian Crossword
Across
- 3. city
- 5. a way of supplying water
- 6. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- 9. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- 13. type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
- 14. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- 15. one of the Unuk’s kings who became a figure in Sumerian literature; “The Epic of Gilgamesh”
- 16. more than they needed
- 17. hierarchy the division of society by rank or class
- 18. long poem that tells the story of heroes
- 21. Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city with hanging gardens
- 23. the worship of many gods
- 25. a wheeled horse drawn cart used in battle
- 27. countryside areas
Down
- 1. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 2. writer
- 4. picture symbols
- 7. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
- 8. a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland
- 10. the science of building
- 11. consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
- 12. people who preformed religious ceremonies
- 19. the world’s first system of writing
- 20. human made waterways
- 22. pyramid shaped temple tower
- 24. Akkadian Emperor who was one of the first rulers to have a permanent army
- 26. effect, result