Across
- 2. came from Asia Minor and had an understanding of how to make iron weapons
- 7. the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates River
- 10. the earliest known form of writing done by the Sumerians
- 13. Persian who rejected polytheism for a belief in one god, Ahura Mazda
- 14. told story of a great flood that destroyed the world
- 16. most likely the first group of people to use wheeled vehicles
Down
- 1. the ruler of Persia from 522-4486 BC who was able to unify Persia
- 2. the ruler of Babylon who built an empire of nearly all of Mesopotamia
- 3. a writing system in which each symbol represents a sound
- 4. created the first alphabet
- 5. a territory that is ruled by people from another land
- 6. the religion of Sumer
- 8. the Sumerians had a number system that divided an hour into ________.
- 9. the worlds first civilization that developed around 3300 BC in Mesopotamia
- 11. used to carry water from rivers to fields
- 12. the set of rules and laws created by Hammurabi
- 15. the ruler of Akkad who built the first empire