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Across 1. Groups of traveling merchants trading 5. A city by the Euphrates river 9. On the Tigris River, capital of Assyria, located in Northern Mesopotamia 10. Assyrian Kings divided the empire into. political districts. They chose officials to govern each province. 13. The development of different kinds of jobs. 15. The time before people developed writing. 16. Conquered cities up north and south to create the Babylon empire 19. Tools and methods to help humans perform tasks. people were the first to use technology. 20. People who study how humans developed and how they related to one another. 23. Western river in Iraq (mesopotamia) 24. To tame animals and plants for human use. 25. People who study and write about the human past. 27. Body of water located in Southern Mesopotamia/Iraq/Kuwait, where the Tigris & Euphrates rivers/Arabian Sea flow 28. The conquerors of Mesopotamia 29. Complex societies that include cities, religion, writing, Art, Architecture, Government, and social classes. 30. The story of humans in the past. The time when there is writing. 31. It has its own government and was not part of a larger unit. 32. A group of many lands under one ruler

Down 2. A weapon, tool, and other things made by humans. 3. People who regularly move from place to place. 4. Sumer was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia 6. People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been. 7. Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock. 8. Attracted outside invaders, known for warfare( battering ram, slinger, archers, and chariots.) Located on the Tigris river in Mesopotamia. 11. A beautiful palace built for a Nebuchadnezzar’s wife, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world 12. Allowed farmers to grow plenty of food to support a large population 14. Eastern river currently in Iraq (mesopotamia) 17. The land between rivers 18. People who study the heavenly bodies, mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon. 21. Skilled workers who made metal, cloth or pottery products 22. He controlled all of Mesopotamia, king of Babylon/Chaldea from 605 B.C to 562 B.C. 26. Consisted of 100s of wedge shape marks cut into damp clay with a sharp-ended reed 28. Someone who keeps records