Mesopotamia

3. the worship of many gods
4. small particles of soil
5. a group of many different lands under one ruler.
7. a group of people traveling together, often on a trading expedition.
9. a long poem that tells the story of a hero
12. a method of watering crops where water flows from a water source to the fields.
13. extra amounts of something
14. Chaldean king known for rebuilding Babylon and building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
17. a curving strip of farmland from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
18. technology that helped farmers prepare the soil for seeds.

1. official record keepers
2. a wheel that helped shape wet clay into bowls and jars.
3. a society dominated by men.
4. Akkadian king who united Akkad with Sumer, creating the world’s first empire.
6. the king who created the Babylonian empire and who’s best known for creating a set of laws for his empire.
8. a large temple built to honor a god in a city state. Means “to rise high” in ancient Akkadian.
10. in mythology, the god/human who ruled the city state of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia.
11. wedge-shaped writing created by Sumerians and made up of 1200 different characters
15. cities that had their own government and was not part of any larger governing state
16. pyramid In Sumer, upper classes were kings and priests; middle class were merchants, farmers, and artisans; the lowest class were enslaved people.