Across
- 3. a society that developed just north of sumer
- 6. the division of society according to people's rank or class
- 7. a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle, used effectively by the Hitties
- 8. a Chaldean leader who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- 13. the founder of the Babylonian empire
- 15. the worship of many gods
- 16. a political unit made up of a city and all the surrounding lands
- 17. the world's first system of writing
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- 1. the greatest Akkadian ruler, created the worlds first empire
- 2. this tree was a valuable trade item used by the Phoenicians
- 4. the science of building
- 5. a set of 282 laws created by the Babylonian leader Hammurabi
- 9. a pyramid-shaped temple
- 10. a set of letters that can be combined to form words, first created by the Phoenicians
- 11. city located on the Euphrates near what is now Baghdad, Iraq
- 12. another name for Mesopotamia, the region in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates river, what the Sumerians are named after
- 14. a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler