Unit 2 - Mesopotamia - Crossword Labs

3. A surplus of this leads to population growth.
4. The first civilizations were not countries, they were these. They included the city and the countryside farmland around it.
6. In an alphabet, symbols stand for these instead of standing for words.
7. In this type of government, one person has all of the power; usually a king, queen, or emperor.
11. Caravans were groups of merchants who traveled together for ________________.
12. Silt restores this to the soil. This makes silt a natural fertilizer.
15. These horse-drawn carts allowed soldiers to move around quickly on the battlefield.
16. The area where the first civilizations developed.
19. Trade routes were mainly used by these people as they traveled to buy and sell things in other lands.
21. Name given to the area of the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
22. This type of person was paid to write for those who did not know how to write.
24. These buildings were evidence that Mesopotamia had advanced architecture.
25. Legendary story of a powerful king in Uruk. Earliest known example of literature.

1. This type of Mesopotamian art is a picture made up of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or tile.
2. This word means a group believes in more than one god.
5. Cuneiform was the world's first system of ___________.
6. This king of Akkad conquered nearby territories and formed the first empire.
8. An empire consists of different lands and territories under the rule of one leader or ______________.
9. Hammurabi's Code helped protect people from _____________ because the laws were written down and people could read them.
10. These stone cylinders were used to press images and symbols into wet clay tablets used for writing were considered an early form of ______.
13. These areas are city areas where the population is much higher. Most of the buildings are located in these areas.
14. Priests were people who had the job of pleasing this group.
17. Most of a civilization's food will be grown in these areas of the countryside.
18. This science was needed for building large structures (larger than homes) and buildings.
20. Irrigation supplies this to an area of land and makes it possible to grow crops there.
23. An epic is a long version of this type of story about a great hero and their adventures.