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