The First Sumerian Dictator

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Across
  1. 4. Sargon convinced the army to kill the ____.
  2. 5. dictatorship when a ruler uses his army to make sure people obey him.
  3. 7. used to water the crops.
  4. 8. what was Sargon placed in
  5. 9. the area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
  6. 11. people who lived in Mesopotamia
  7. 12. bearer Sargon's profession in the king's palace.
  8. 13. the villages in Sumer built thick walls with high towers for ___________.
  9. 14. the city where Sargon grew up.
  10. 15. Sargon convinced the _______ to follow him.
Down
  1. 1. The Sumerians invented this.
  2. 2. the name of Sargon's new empire.
  3. 3. what the cities in Sumer were called (each city was like a separate country with it's own king and army.
  4. 6. Sargon united all of the cities in Mesopotamia by fighting _______ wars.
  5. 10. the name of the man who wanted to make all of the cities into one country.
  6. 12. Sumerians used this type of writing.