Chapter 2 Sections 1-2 Mesopotamia

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