Across
- 4. the most famous Babylonian ruler. He wrote down a set of 282 laws
- 7. countryside
- 9. writer
- 11. more than they needed
- 13. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- 15. an organized society within a specific area
- 16. a wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used in battle
- 17. the worship of many gods
- 18. a pyramid-shaped temple tower
Down
- 1. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- 2. a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland in the Middle East
- 3. land with different territories under a single ruler
- 5. city
- 6. the most famous Chaldean king. He rebuilt Babylon and built the Hanging Gardens
- 8. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 10. the world's first system of writing
- 12. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- 14. human-made waterways
