Mesopotamia Vocabulary

2. The Sumerians invented this for their plows, nowadays we use it for everything from planes to cars
6. Someone who is hired to write for someone else.
9. A political unit in which a city rules itself
10. Invented by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, uses the sun to tell time
11. The empire that conquered the Neo-Babylonians and ended Mesopotamian independence.
15. The first written language
16. Large temples where the Mesopotamian people prayed; the Sumerians believed their gods and goddesses actually lived in them

1. A large group of different people and states ruled by one person
3. The ruler of the Babylonians, one of his most famous achievements was writing down laws
4. The Babylonians were the first to write these down, by order of Hammurabi
5. People who were owned by other people; had some rights in the Neo-Babylonian Empire
7. The kingdom centered in Babylon and one of the earliest empires
8. A large display made in Babylon by the king Nebuchadnezzar consisting of lush plants and statues, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
12. One of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia; starts with an E
13. Controlling the flow of water using walls and canals
14. One of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia; starts with a T