Across
- 6. another term for farming
- 8. area also known as the fertile crescent
- 11. government run by religious leaders
- 12. first created to keep track of farming seasons or religious events
- 16. the Persian Empire built ____ to connect their 3,000 mile Empire
- 18. means the "New Stone Age"
- 19. Babylonian king famous for his law code
- 21. early social class who held religious power
- 22. being able to produce more food than you need
- 23. many early tools were made out of ____ during the Paleolithic
- 25. a written set of laws, ex. Hammurabi's ____
- 27. in order to find food, hunter-gatherers often moved from place to place
- 28. early upright walkers
- 29. institution that made decisions, wrote laws and collected taxes
Down
- 1. making plants and animals useful for humans
- 2. many civilizations used this to bring water from rivers to crops and fields
- 3. stepped pyramid temples built for Sumerian gods
- 4. means the "Old Stone Age"
- 5. created by the Phoenicians for faster record keeping
- 7. rare and expensive dye color invented by the Phoenicians
- 9. the first Mesopotamian civilization
- 10. writing system invented by the Sumerians
- 13. the term for new types of jobs available during the Neolithic Age
- 14. the largest civilization in ancient Mesopotamia
- 15. first work of written literature in history, the Epid of _____
- 17. early monotheistic civilization of Mesopotamia
- 20. Ur, Uruk and Kish were three of the worlds first ___
- 21. early civilization that sailed across the Mediterranean Sea
- 24. in the neolithic, people began to live in _____ villages and settlements
- 26. early social class dedicated to keeping written records