Across
- 7. a curved shaped area certainly moist and fertile land surrounded by desert which allowed one of the first civilization in southern Mesopotamia
- 8. the eastern river that was virtual to live in ancient Mesopotamia
- 10. massive terraced step pyramid built by the Sumerians and Babylonians
- 11. a demigod of superhuman strength who builds the city walls of Uruk to defend his people
- 12. a Greek word meaning "land between the river" this was an ancient region of land between the Tigris and Euphrates river
Down
- 1. the founder of the Persian empire which was the largest in the world at the time
- 2. the first people to write down and record their system of law
- 3. wedge-shaped character on clay tablets used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
- 4. the language is most spoken in ancient Mesopotamia
- 5. the longest river in ancient Mesopotamia
- 6. first urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia
- 9. was an Akkadian leader who was the first emperor of Mesopotamia
