Across
- 1. Sumerians based their mathematical system on this number
- 4. kept the city-state operating
- 9. a writer
- 10. body of water at the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
- 11. Hammurabi’s was topped with a picture of him receiving his laws from the gods
- 12. human-made waterways
- 13. battles were fought to protect natural resources, trade routes, and this
- 15. first city in the world (it’s urban)
- 17. areas in the city
- 22. King from Uruk and the world’s first super hero
- 25. Phoenicians invented the one the English one is based on
- 26. Assyrians were experts as this style of war
- 28. communicated with the gods for the Sumerians
- 30. ancient traders and makers of royal purple
- 31. worshipping many gods
Down
- 1. the division of society into ranks or positions
- 2. Sargon’s style of government
- 3. known for being fierce in battle
- 5. land with different territories and people under one ruler
- 6. Hammurabi’s was a set of 282
- 7. world’s first writing system
- 8. temple at the center of Mesopotamian cities
- 11. Akkadian emperor of the world’s first empire
- 14. supplying water to land
- 16. shape of the large area of fertile land that Mesopotamia was a part of
- 18. the one built in Nineveh had 30,000 clay tablets, including a copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh
- 19. fertile soil that comes from the river bottom during flooding
- 20. this Mesopotamia invention made transportation easier
- 21. these made the Assyrians faster in battle
- 23. areas in the country, farming areas
- 24. Babylonian king who created the first law code
- 27. weapons that were stronger than copper and tin weapons
- 29. each city had one and built a temple in the city center to honor it