Mesopotamia

2. = Patron-god of the city of Babylon and one of the most important gods of Mesopotamia. He is often represented as (or with) a snake-dragon.
4. = Fifth Sumerian king who built defensive walls and temples in Uruk
5. = Created first empire in Mesopotamia
6. = Famous Babylonian king who compiled a law code inscribed on a black stone pillar (18th c. BCE)
8. = Wedge-shaped symbols and pictographs made with a reed stylus on a soft writing surface, developed by the Sumerians

1. = Famous Sumerian city-state on the Euphrates River where the first plow was found and the first potter’s wheel invented
2. = Land between two rivers
3. = Sumerian stepped pyramid that housed temples and altars to the principal god of the city
7. = Goddess of love, fertility, and war, also known as Inanna
9. = Symbolic foundational story about the origins and destiny of humankind