Mesopotamia Civilization

3. a single set of laws that everyone in Hammurabi’s empire had to follow
6. groups to which certain people in society belong
8. rich farmland that reached from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea north to the Syrian Desert and south to the Persian Gulf
10. the location of the oldest of the early civilizations located in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (it means “the land between the rivers”)
11. a city beside the Euphrates River
15. official writer or recorder of information
16. a city and surrounding land that make up an independent state, with its own ruler, army, and laws
17. people of Akkad who came from the deserts at the edge of the Fertile Crescent

1. the class that included merchants, scribes, farmers, and skilled workers
2. the king of Akkad who wanted to rule all the cities and people of the Fertile Crescent
4. the greatest ruler of Babylon
5. to have used streams, ditches, canals, and other means to water crops
6. the wedge-shaped characters used in Sumerian writing
7. a group of different people and places under a single ruler
9. people of Babylon
12. a temple of ancient Mesopotamia; the house of the god of the city
13. the highest class—kings and priests and their families
14. people who settled in an area of Mesopotamia called Sumer