Across
- 7. "between the rivers"
- 9. created first permanent army and empire
- 10. first great Hebrew king
- 12. world's first writing system
- 13. arc-shaped are of land in the Middle East
- 15. pyramid-shaped temple tower
- 18. man-made river that helped control flooding
- 19. founder of the Hebrew people
- 21. people who wrote and kept records
Down
- 1. built the legendary Hanging Gardens
- 2. created first written law code and named it after himself
- 3. one of the rivers of Mesopotamia
- 4. one of the rivers of Mesopotamia
- 5. first people to believe in only one god
- 6. led the Hebrews out of Egyptian slavery
- 8. supplying water to an area of land
- 11. only people who could talk with the gods
- 14. Sumerians' greatest invention
- 16. what the Phoenicians created that helped develop language
- 17. most powerful city in Mesopotamia
- 18. what the Assyrians used to give them an advantage in battle
- 20. first advanced civilization