Social Studies Chapter 2 Vocabulary People and Places

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Across
  1. 4. an early city-state in southern Mesopotamia
  2. 6. the land between the rivers
  3. 9. the set of laws given to Moses by God providing guidance for the worship of God
  4. 11. the Hebrew kingdom in the south after the death of Solomon
  5. 12. the "new land" that God promised to give Abraham and his descendents
  6. 16. The most powerful king of Babylon who conquered the Assyrians and built the great ziggurat
  7. 17. the first and most powerful Assyrian king
  8. 19. the son of David who built the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem
  9. 20. the capital city of Israel
  10. 21. the first king of Babylon
Down
  1. 1. a legendary Sumerian king about whom an epic was written
  2. 2. the first ruler to establish an empire in Mesopotamia
  3. 3. the daughter of Sargon who became a priestess in Ur
  4. 5. the Hebrew kingdom in the north after the death of Solomon
  5. 7. the Jewish kingdom founded by King David
  6. 8. the first complete set of written laws
  7. 10. the city in which Ashurbanipal built a great library
  8. 11. the religion practiced by the Hebrew people
  9. 13. an early city-state in the in northern Mesopotamia
  10. 14. the most important trading post in North Africa
  11. 15. the name of the empire ruled by Hammurabi
  12. 17. the first Jew
  13. 18. an important Jewish woman who was a judge