Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. Conquered by invasion,fierce in Battle
  2. 3. Worship of many gods
  3. 5. Ruler of the Babylonian empire
  4. 6. Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  5. 12. Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  6. 13. The science of building
  7. 15. The world’s first system of writing
  8. 18. Destroyed Nineveh,Took Sumerian Culture,Center of Astronomy,Created a Calendar
  9. 19. The first known female writer in history
  10. 21. A ruler of a kingdom or empire
  11. 24. The division of society by rank or class
  12. 25. The world’s first civilization
  13. 26. human-made waterways
  14. 27. trees and flowers that grew on Nebuchadnezzar’s roofs and terraces of his palace, he created for his wife
  15. 29. Traders from present day Lebanon, created colonies,the alphabet, purple dye, and expert sailors
  16. 30. First ruler to have a permanent army
  17. 31. A math system that is based on dividing a circle into 360 degrees
  18. 32. of Labor the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
  19. 34. Stone cylinders engraved with designs and one of Sumer’s most famous works of arts.
  20. 36. A pyramid shaped temple tower
  21. 39. Present Day Turkey, Military Advantages over rivals, Master ironworkers and weapons, Used Chariots
  22. 40. Crescent A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland
  23. 41. City areas
Down
  1. 1. Consists of a city and all the countryside around it
  2. 4. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates river
  3. 7. Picture symbols
  4. 8. People who performed religious ceremonies
  5. 9. Invention of the Sumerians that spins clay as a craftsperson shapes it into bowls
  6. 10. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  7. 11. the most famous Chaldean king
  8. 14. Countryside areas
  9. 16. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
  10. 17. A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
  11. 20. Captured Babylon, took over Hittites by assassin,ruled for almost 400 years
  12. 22. is a set of letters that can be combined to form words
  13. 23. Hammurabi’s empire
  14. 28. more than needed
  15. 30. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
  16. 33. Legendary figure in Sumerian literature
  17. 35. Medicine Ingredients like animals, plants, and minerals to produce healing drugs
  18. 37. Stringed instruments
  19. 38. Writer