Across
- 2. The eastern river that was vital to life in ancient Mesopotamia.
- 4. The first people to write down and record their systems of law.
- 7. Boomerang-shaped area containing moist and fertile land, allowing the first civilizations to form.
- 8. The first Urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
- 9. Tolerant leader who was the founder of the Persian Empire, which was the largest in the world at the time.
- 12. The language most spoken in ancient Mesopotamia.
Down
- 1. Wedge-shaped characters on clay tablets, used in the first writing systems ever.
- 3. Hero of Uruk, may or may not have been real.
- 5. Terrace-stepped pyramids built in Mesopotamia.
- 6. Greek word meaning "land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers."
- 10. The longest river in ancient Mesopotamia.
- 11. Akkadian leader, first emperor of Mesopotamia.