Across
- 2. A person who is believed to speak for God
- 4. A country in western Asia, created in 1948 as a home for the Jews; ancient kingdom of Israelites
- 6. A written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government (3 words, don’t add space)
- 7. The kingdom south of Israel, surviving until 586 B.C.
- 9. Sumerian priestess, poet, and daughter of Sargon
- 12. A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia
- 13. A fertile region in southwestern Asia that includes Mesopotamia and the eastern Mediterranean (2 words, don’t add space)
- 14. King of the Babylonian Empire; creator of one of the world's oldest known codes of law
- 15. Legendary Mesopotamian king and hero
- 18. The region between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and the Babylonian civilizations
- 22. An ancient country along the Tigris River in present-day Iraq. The country centered around the city of Ashur in the 2200s B.C.
- 23. The watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes
- 24. Present-day Israel and Palestine in what was the southwestern portion of the Fertile Crescent, west of the Jordan River
- 25. The mountain where, according to the Bible, the Ten Commandments were given to Moses; thought to be in the Gebel Musa on the Sinai Peninsula (2 words, don't add space)
- 28. The scattering of Jews to many parts of the world
- 30. The belief in many gods and goddesses
- 32. A group of lands and peoples ruled by one government
- 33. Prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt
- 34. King who united the city-states of Sumer to create an empire
- 35. A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent(don’t add “river” at the end)
- 37. A self-governing city, often with surrounding lands and villages (don’t add hyphen)
Down
- 1. A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river
- 3. The gradual wearing away of soil and rock by wind, glaciers, or water
- 5. A raised, arched structure built to carry water over long distances
- 6. A system of writing that used wedge-shaped symbols to represent sounds, ideas, and objects; developed in ancient Sumer
- 7. The religion of the Jewish people
- 8. A belief in one God
- 10. A long period of dry weather
- 11. According to the Hebrew Bible, the laws God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai (2 words, don’t add space)
- 12. A professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents
- 16. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible containing the laws and teachings of Judaism
- 17. King of Israel who made Jerusalem his capital
- 19. Founder of Judaism; led his family from Ur to Canaan
- 20. An ancient city in western Asia; capital of present-day Israel
- 21. A large pyramid with several stories built by the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians
- 26. An ancient city on the Tigris River and the capital of Assyria from 704 B.C. to 612 B.C.
- 27. A wall built along a riverbank to prevent flooding
- 29. A special agreement
- 31. A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent (don’t add “river” at the end)
- 36. An ancient Mesopotamian empire that extended throughout the eastern portion of the Fertile Crescent in the 1700s B.C.
- 38. Son of David and king of Israel; built the temple at Jerusalem