Across
- 3. The world's first writing system, wedge-shaped
- 5. These spread more easily when people live together
- 6. The land between the rivers
- 9. The rule of one family
- 13. Greatly increased the uses of the wheel
- 15. First character of epic literature, Sumerian king
- 19. Change during NR, animals
- 20. Earliest copy we have of some Bible stories
- 21. Region of arable land, first farmers
- 22. Greatest empire builder, Assyrian
- 23. This on walls indicates permanence
- 24. First writing put down and preserved on this material
- 26. Responsible for the world's first written code of law
- 28. World's first recorded author, priestess
- 29. Created the world's first empire, from Akkad
- 30. Assyrian capital, great library discovered there
- 33. Babylon founded along this river
- 34. Initial use of earliest writing, keeping track of goods
- 35. Key discovery for understanding Bronze Age europeans
- 36. Term describing a religion with many gods
- 37. Key to unlocking earliest writing (3)
- 38. How paleolithic humans fed themselves
Down
- 1. May have existed in Babylon, one of seven wonders (2)
- 2. First concrete evidence of historical accuracy of Bible
- 4. The land between the rivers
- 7. Enslaved Hebrews, Neo-Babylonian king
- 8. Persian, conquered babylon in 6th C BCE
- 10. Deciphered first witing, discovered the code
- 11. Assyrian capital built along this river
- 12. Significant impact of the Neolithic Rev.
- 14. Uncovered royal tomb at Ur, great flood?
- 16. Mesopotamia is bordered by these to the northeast
- 17. Different levels/status in society indicates
- 18. Grain used in many early transactions
- 25. Emergence of complex human societies, paleolithic (3)
- 27. Term describing religion with only one god
- 31. Revolution, new stone age, permanence
- 32. Basis of the Sumerian number system