Ancient History Crossword

2. First writing, created around 3000 B.C., created by the Sumerians, written with reed stylus on clay by trained scribes.
6. Has a set of laws named after him
7. A city that, with its surrounding territory, forms an independent state.
8. King or queen;single head of a government
10. The land between the two rivers
12. The capital of Babylonia
14. A professional writer writes things down. In Mesopotamia, talented boys learned to read and write cuneiform on clay tablets, and to do mathematics.
15. Patricles of fertile soil
16. Massive, Mespotamian pyramid-shaped, stepped tower and temple made of mud bricks.
17. Groups of countries united under the power of a single ruler.

1. The name of it is similar to a season
2. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, social classes, writing, systems of trade, transportation, religion, and architecture.
3. Present day Mesopotamia
4. A person who Buys and sells goods
5. A long poem that tells the heroic deeds of a character
9. Something some people thought was more important than war
11. The belief in many gods
13. A skilled crafts-person; an important part of Mesopotamias middle class.