Across
- 4. The belief in many gods
- 6. The Babylonians built roads to encourage _________ and make travel easier.
- 7. A form of writing based on making wedge-shaped impressions with reeds on soft clay tablets
- 9. professional writers
- 12. Where the first civilizations formed, in what is now Iraq, because the soil was good for growing crops (2 words)
- 13. Cities that also acted as politically independent states, with their own government, army, and king
- 14. Because their land was easy to attack, ___________ learned to be skilled warriors who decided to strike instead of waiting to be attacked.
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- 1. The first civilization in Mesopotamia
- 2. Masters of math and astronomy, they were able to identify 5 of the other planets in the solar system.
- 3. Temples shaped like pyramids that were built (out of clay bricks) to appease the gods
- 5. The most well-known Babylonian leader, known for his "code", or set of laws that he created that focused on punishment matching crimes
- 6. The Sumerians invented the system of units that we use to tell _________.
- 8. The 2 rivers within the Fertile Crescent are the Tigris and _____________________.
- 10. a long poem, usually centered on a hero
- 11. form of government where a deity is the supreme ruler
- 15. A group of languages that spread throughout North Africa and Southeast Asia, that included Akkadian, Sumerian, Eblaite, Babylonian, and Arabic.