MESOPOTAMIA

3. Worship of more than one god
6. A pointed stick used for writing
7. A king that ruled for 43 years and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
8. Sumerians developed this system for watering the crops and protecting their settlements from flood
10. Developed the earliest alphabet in the world
13. What Mesopotamia is now known as
15. ¨An eye for an eye and a tooth for a ________¨
16. The Sumerians developed this form of writing

1. Type of government that was first used by the Sumerians
2. The king of the city of Uruk and also part of the oldest example of epic literature
4. A person that could read and write cuneiform; also known as one of the most educated people in the world during this period
5. First humans to form a civilization
9. Giant Pyramid-shaped temple where people worshipped
11. The first king of the Babylonian Empire remembered for his code of laws
12. Fine soil deposited by the rivers which made the soil rich for farming
14. Phoenicia was located in what are now the nations of Syria and ______.