Writing and City Life (11D)

2. Mesopotamian people wrote their literature on it.
4. Principal character in a storyy of the Mesopotamia tradition.
5. The water way of this river worked as aworld route for trade.
9. Ability to read and write ,this was very low in Mesopotamia as along with the king very few could read and write.
11. These people are interested to know about Mesopotamia as there is mention of Mesopotamia in the old Testament, the first part of the Bible.
13. To get this metal copper and tin are required to be mixed.
15. This epic tells about the pride of Mesopotamian people they had on their cities ,so basically this epic indicates towards the importance of Mesopotamian cities.
17. This was the earliest known language of Mesopotamia.

1. The place where the palace of king Zimrilim was constructed which comprised an area of 2.4 hectares with 260 rooms.
3. Meaning of writing or spoken sounds which are represented in visible signs.
6. This language replaced Sumerian languageafter 2400BCE.
7. The first ancient ruler with whom the first event of Sumerian trade is asssociated.
8. This word is derived from the Greek words mesos meaning middle and potamos meaning river.
10. This type of family was considered as the norm in Mesopotamian society.
12. It is derived from the Latin words cuneus meaning wedg and forma meaning shape.
14. It is the modern name of Mesopotamia
16. This is the deserted part of Mesopotamia whereforst cities and writing emerged.