Across
- 4. a system of writing developed by the ancient sumerians that used wedge shaped symbols
- 8. a long period of dry weather
- 10. one of the ancient woders of the world thought to be made by babylonians
- 11. self governing city and the land that surrounds it
- 12. a wide spred lack of food resulting in in hunger and starvation
- 14. belief in one god
- 15. the land between two rivers the area between the tigris and euphates rivers in the middle east
- 18. a large temple built by ancient sumerians to honor their gods and goddesses
- 19. an extra supply of something (food)
Down
- 1. a fertile reigion in the middle east
- 2. a religion founded by the hebrews
- 3. belief in many gods or goddesses
- 5. a hebrew that was raised as an eygyptian pharoh eventually led the hebrew people out of slavery from eygypt and recieved the ten commandments
- 6. an ancient city in mesopotamia and the capital of the vast empire that covered the fertile cresent
- 7. the worlds first system of laws recorded by king hammurabi around 1780 b.c.e
- 9. trade of one thing for another without the use of money
- 10. the ten laws that god gave to moses on mount sinai
- 13. babylon ruler who recorded the first system of laws known as the code of hammurabi
- 15. a mountain in eygypts sinai peninsula and the place according to the bible that moses recieved the ten commandments
- 16. the ancient civilization in southern mesopotamia and one of the first civilizations in the world
- 17. great hebrew leader who lead his from sumer to the land of canaan
