Across
- 2. promoted to encourage religious unity
- 6. the ruler of Akkad whom took control of Sumer creating the first empire
- 8. took control of Akkadian empire combing it with his own in 1790 B.C.E.
- 10. rules dealing with offenses against others such as murder, robbery
- 13. laws dealing with private rights and matters (contracts, property, taxes, marriage)
- 14. Assyrians lived near the upper ________
- 15. After Assurbanipal's death Babylon seized control of the empire from the_____ Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
- 16. when Hittites brought with them the knowledge of this resource
Down
- 1. Hammurabi's ___________ was a set of laws/rules for society
- 3. some of the most feared warriors in history
- 4. King _______________ created the first library for cuneiform
- 5. arrangement of laws that govern a state set down in writing
- 7. this groups empire lasted for about 200 years in Mesopotamia before collapsing
- 9. _____ gateways depicting the gods allow entrance into the city of Babylon
- 11. Assyrians developed laws for palace women such as they had to wear _____ in public
- 12. was rebuilt and become one of the highest regarded cities in Mesopotamia