Across
- 4. relating to farm areas and life in the country
- 6. 2340 B.C. leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the first empire
- 7. the worship of many gods
- 9. people who performed religious ceremonies
- 13. Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
- 16. a unit of soldiers who ride horses
- 17. a picture symbol
- 20. A series of wars between the Greeks (mainly Athens) and the Persians in which the Greeks were usually victorious.
- 24. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
- 26. human-made waterways
- 28. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)
- 29. A pyramid shaped temple tower
- 30. A city and all the countryside around it
- 31. Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC
- 32. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Down
- 1. the world's first system of writing
- 2. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 3. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
- 5. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
- 8. relating to a city
- 10. Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire
- 11. the most famous Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city
- 12. the division of society by rank or class
- 14. A way of supplying water to an area of land
- 15. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- 18. king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC)
- 19. the science of building
- 21. Extra
- 22. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- 23. A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
- 25. A writer
- 26. A wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
- 27. Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.