Across
- 2. southern Mesopotamia
- 3. sharpened reed that was used to write in clay
- 5. an extra amount of anything
- 7. "wedge shaped" writing
- 8. region that Hammurabi was from
- 9. shortage of food that leads to death and starvation
- 11. a protection tax
- 14. King who created a famous set of laws
- 16. man made water collection pool
- 17. state city and the surrounding farmland
- 19. king who created the first empire
Down
- 1. king who built the Hanging Gardens for his wife
- 4. river wall
- 6. belief in more than one god
- 10. land between the rivers
- 12. a group of different lands ruled by one person
- 13. a way to bring water to crops and control flooding
- 15. the present day country of Mesopotamia
- 18. profession writer and record keeper