Mesopotamia

4. the worship of many gods
5. King of Babylonian, around 1780 BC
6. The king of the Akkadians. In 2340 B.C., he conquered all of Mesopotamia and created the world's first empire
9. code government-created laws or rules that the people had to follow to keep order
11. of Hammurabi A written code of law from 1772 BC
12. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
14. having more food than needed
16. writing system developed by the Sumerians using wedge-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
17. trading system in which people exchange goods without using money
20. an ancient city in Mesopotamia, a cultural and political center in Babylonia and a concept used symbolically in the Bible.
21. The ________ Empire was the world's first empire
22. a way of supplying water to an area of land
24. a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming

1. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
2. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
3. a male monarch (leader) of a major territorial (land) area
7. the greatest King of ancient Babylon during the period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
8. a long poem that tells the story of a hero
10. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer
12. land between Tigris and Euphrates
13. the science, art, and practice of cultivating land to grow crops and raise livestock, providing food and materials for human use
15. a writer
18. One of the earliest forms of writing invented by the Sumer
19. Crescent a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
23. independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal