Across 1. small particles of soil. 6. canals help farmers grow crops in areas that would otherwise be dry and not suitable for farming. 7. an ambitious leader who ruled the people of Akkad, known as Akkadians 10. a long poem that tells the story of a hero. 13. Sumerians created a way of wedge-shaped writing called? 14. Sumerians introduced vehicles into military use with the development of the? 16. Sumerians used - - - - - from the rivers as their main building material. 17. Mesopotamia the earliest known civilization, developed in what is now southern - - - - - - and means "the land between the rivers" in Greek. 18. The city of Babylon served as their capital. Because of this, the Chaldean Empire is sometimes called the New - - - - - - - - Empire. 19. forced payments, from conquered people. 21. Assyrian king named Ashurbanipal built one of the world's first libraries in - - - - - -. It held 25,000 tablets of stories and songs to the gods. 23. The - - - - includes parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. 26. political districts. 27. outes linked Sumer to places as far away as India and Egypt. 30. Early Mesopotamian farmers used water from the - - - - and Euphrates Rivers to water their fields. 31. Merchants came to the city in traveling groups called? 32. The - - - - - took advantage and captured Babylon and made Mesopotamia part of their empire. However, they allowed their newly captured land to keep its distinct culture. 33. Babylon's Hanging Gardens were considered one of the - - - - - Wonders of the Ancient World. T 34. The Chaldeans invented one of the first - - - - - to measure time. They also were the first to follow a seven-day week.

Down 1. a region in southern Mesopotamia. 2. Nebuchadnezzar built a - - - - - that had a giant staircase of greenery. 3. One of the key factors in the Assyrian successes was - - - - - - - weapons. 4. The Babylonians built many new canals, making the land even more? 5. first developed about 3000 b.c. in the river valleys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. 8. empire arose about 1,000 years after the empire of Hammurabi. 9. is best known for creating a set of laws for his empire. 11. system brought water from the Euphrates River to water the gardens. 12. Chaldean - - - - studied the heavenly bodies—mapped the stars, the planets, 15. meant that after a king died, his son took over. 20. The Sumerian people worshiped many gods, a type of belief known as? 22. a group of many different lands under one ruler. 24. With the Assyrians in turmoil, a group of people called the - - - - - - took power. 25. Artisans made the potter's wheel, which helped to shape clay into bowls and jars. 28. a large temple, and means "to rise high" in the ancient Akkadian 29. official record keepers. 31. Hammurabi's - - - - - - provided the first written rule of law, forcing all people to follow the law in how they treated others. 32. Sumerians developed the sailboat and a wooden - - - - to help them in the fields.