Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. Sumerian invention used throughout the year
  2. 4. gender of the world's first author
  3. 7. the other Mesopotamian river not mentioned in the song
  4. 8. invention that made transportation much faster
  5. 12. Ur, Uruk and Eridu are examples
  6. 13. Sumerian building material
  7. 16. present-day country of Mesopotamia
  8. 18. way Sumerian farmers watered their crops
  9. 20. Babylonian ruler famous for his laws
  10. 21. middle class; Mesopotamia's official record keepers
  11. 22. popular Sumerian musical instrument
Down
  1. 1. "By the ____________ River!"
  2. 2. Sumerian writing material
  3. 3. religions that believe in many gods
  4. 5. students in a Sumerian school
  5. 6. invention that helped farmers plant crops
  6. 9. a Sumerian place of worship
  7. 10. the world's first system of writing
  8. 11. lower class; produced the stable food supply
  9. 14. upper class; Mesopotamian rulers (ex. Sargon)
  10. 15. an "epic" king
  11. 17. how many millennia ago Mesopotamia appeared
  12. 19. king that created an empire