Across
- 3. a pyramid shaped temple in Sumer
- 5. from Syrian Desert;(612 B.C.) destroyed Nineveh and Assyrian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt Babylon, they admired sumerian culture, BAbylon became center for astronomy, also created calendar and solved complex geometry problems
- 6. served the king of Kish, rebelled against the Sumerian leader, took over city, and built city (Akkad) into military power
- 8. a picture symbol
- 10. a human-made waterway
- 12. Code a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
- 14. a city area
- 15. a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
- 16. of labor an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
- 17. King of Uruk; became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
- 19. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- 20. a countryside area
Down
- 1. built kingdom in Asia Minor; first people to master ironworking,skillfully used chariots,rule did not last long,
- 2. the world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer
- 4. ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 7. the most famous Chaldean king; rebuilt Babylon, his palace featured the Hanging Gardens
- 9. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 11. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- 13. Crescent an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
- 18. from Northern Mesopotamia; gained control of Babylon, was overrun by invaders,took 300 years to recover, Had strong army→ conquered parts of Egypt, Fertile Crescent, and Asia Minor/looted villages and burned crops/used iron weapons and chariots