Across
- 2. a picture symbol
- 5. an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular tasks or job
- 6. a pyramid shaped temple in sumer that the priest was on top of and also used to see out a long way
- 8. the worlds first system of writings developed in sumer
- 9. People who built a strong kingdom in Asia minor which today is Turkey. Mastered iron working and successfully used the chariot.
- 10. the most famous chaldean king. He rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city. Famous palace featured famous hanging gardens
- 14. group from northern Mesopotamia who gained control in the 1200 B.C. Conquered all of the fertile crescent and took over parts of Asia minor and Egypt.
- 16. State a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
- 17. Crescent: An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
- 18. ruler of Uruk, also slayed the human monster Humbaba.
- 20. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
Down
- 1. a long poem that tells the stories of heroes
- 3. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 4. a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
- 7. a city area
- 11. a human made waterway
- 12. a group from the syrian desert. Led other peoples on attacks on the Syrians in 612 B.C.
- 13. a ruler of a kingdom or an empire
- 15. a countryside area
- 19. the Akkadian emperor who was found in a basket floating down a river