Across
- 5. City-State in the southern part of Mesopotamia invented the wheel, writing, irrigation
- 6. Complex Societies must have cities, organized govt., art, religion, class division
- 7. King of Babylon, created the code of Hammurabi
- 8. River in Southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the fertile crescent.
Down
- 1. Fertile region in southwestern Asia that includes a region of Mesopotamia, good soil able to grow crops
- 2. System of writing using wedge-shaped symbols to represent sounds, ideas, and objects. 1st form of writing
- 3. Over 200 laws for people in Babylon, listed law and punishment, oldest written laws in the world
- 4. Empire in the north, near Tigris River, had fertile valleys that attracted outside invaders, 1st army to use iron tools, collapsed by 612 BC