Ancient Civilizations Unit 2.3 Terms to Know

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Across
  1. 1. prophet whom God sent to Nineveh to tell the Assyrians to repent
  2. 6. a city and the surrounding land and villages it controls
  3. 9. a powerful Sumerian city-state located in southern Mesopotamia
  4. 10. Crescent: a curved area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
  5. 11. the worship of many gods
  6. 13. a collection of Mesopotamian laws written by Hammurabi
  7. 15. abbreviation for anno Domini, meaning “in the year of our Lord”; used before the number of a year to signify a year after the birth of Christ
  8. 17. a long poem about the actions of a hero
  9. 18. wedge-shaped writing
Down
  1. 2. king of the Amorites and ruler of the Babylonian Empire
  2. 3. the ancient region between the Euphrates River and the Tigris River
  3. 4. a group of nations under one government
  4. 5. the king of Babylon and the Chaldean Empire around 612 BC
  5. 7. ruler who established the first empire around 2270 BC
  6. 8. a pyramid-like temple
  7. 12. one of the greatest cities of the ancient world; beside the Euphrates River near present-day Baghdad
  8. 14. abbreviation meaning “before Christ”; used after the number of a year to signify a year before the birth of Christ
  9. 16. the capital city of the Assyrian Empire; beside the Tigris River
  10. 18. abbreviation for circa, meaning “around”; used to signify the approximate year