Across
- 5. Person who studies how humans developed and how they related to one another
- 6. A region that formed in southern Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.
- 10. Writing consisting of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets
- 12. Record keepers
- 13. People who regularly move from place to place
- 17. A group of many different lands under one ruler
- 18. Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
- 19. Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans
- 20. Tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
- 22. The capital of the Chaldean Empire
- 25. A city that had its own government and was not part of any larger unit
- 26. A land north of the Tigris River that had fertile valleys
- 28. A major body of water in the Middle East
- 29. One of the oldest known communities in the Middle East.
- 30. A river that flows through the fertile crescent and into the Persian Gulf
- 31. Groups of travelling merchants
Down
- 1. The development of different kinds of jobs
- 2. One of the oldest known communities in Turkey.
- 3. Person who studies and writes about the human past
- 4. Political districts
- 6. King of the Akkadians
- 7. Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
- 8. The capital of the Assyrian Empire
- 9. A garden complex that was built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife
- 11. A way of watering crops that used walls, waterways, and ditches to bring water to fields.
- 14. Tame animals and plants for human use
- 15. “The land between the rivers”
- 16. Person who hunts for evidence buried in the ground
- 20. A river that flows through the fertile crescent and into the Persian Gulf
- 21. Complex societies
- 23. Person who studies the heavenly bodies
- 24. King of Babylon that is best known for his law code.
- 27. King of the Chaldeans