Mesopotamia, Yo!!!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of ___ (7)
  2. 5. The ancient Canaanitic language of the ___ that has been revived as the official language (plural) (7)
  3. 7. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac (7)
  4. 8. A member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C (plural) (11)
  5. 11. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who (4)
  6. 12. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians (8)
  7. 13. A member of a people who inhabited ancient ___ (plural) (9)
  8. 14. A river in southwestern Asia (9)
  9. 15. Capable of reproducing (7)

Down

  1. 1. Belief in a single God (10)
  2. 2. An Asian river (6)
  3. 3. Belief in multiple Gods (10)
  4. 6. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  5. 9. A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of ___ (plural) (10)
  6. 10. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (9)
  7. 11. Any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters (8)