Across
- 2. a mesopotamian narrative poem that includes a story a flood that destroys the world
- 11. the earliest known form writing; used a series of wedge-shaped marks an clay tablets
- 14. ruler of Akkad, who concquered sumer in about 2300 B.C. and built the first empire
- 15. an area between the tigris and euphrates rivers where civilization of sumer arose
- 16. aggressive empoeror of babylon who rebuilt the city and its defence
Down
- 1. system where people exchange one set of goods or services for another
- 3. king babylon in about 1790 B.C; codified the laws in his empire
- 4. the branch of law that deals with offenses agains others, such as robbery, assult, or murder
- 5. a region in the middle east where cilcilzation first arose
- 6. systems where people pay for goods or servicrs through the exchange of some token of agreedupon value, such as a coin
- 7. a system of social ranking
- 8. in ancient mesopotamia a large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to citys cheif
- 9. to arrange or set down writing
- 10. persian religious thinker; taught of a single wise god, Ahura Mazda, who struggle with evil, and of a judgement day for each person
- 12. where the worlds first civilization arose around 3300 B.C.
- 13. a territory settled and ruled by people from another land
- 17. the branch of laws that deals with private rightd and matters such as business contracts, property, inheritance, and taxes
- 18. a writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound