1. THE “CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION” GOOD FARMLAND LOCATED BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS

2. MESOPOTAMIA

3. MESOPOTAMIA WAS LOCATED BETWEEN THESE TWO RIVERS

4. TIGRIS & EUPHRATES

5. THIS AREA OF GOOD FARMLAND RUNS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA THROUGH NORTH SYRIA TO THE PERSIAN GULF

7. THE FIRST CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA

8. SUMERIANS

9. A CITY THAT IS ALSO A COUNTRY IN ITSELF IT GOVERNED ITSELF AND WAS INDEPENDENT

11. ONE OF THE EARLIEST CITY-STATES BUILT IN MESOPOTAMIA

12. UR

13. A RELIGIOUS TEMPLE

14. ZIGGURAT

15. SUMERIAN FORM OF WRITING

16. CUNIFORM

17. A WRITING INSTRUMENT OF THE SUMERIANS

19. CLAY USED BY SUMERIANS TO WRITE ON

20. TABLET

21. OLDEST RECORDED EPIC POEM IN HISTORY

23. HEAD GOD OF THE SUMERIANS

24. AN

25. KING OF THE AKKADIANS

26. SARGON I

27. AKKAD WAS THE NAME OF THEIR KINGDOM THIS GROUP APPEARED IN MESOPOTAMIA IN 5,000B.C.

28. AKKADIANS

29. THIS GROUP INVADED MESOPOTAMIA FROM WESTERN SYRIA

30. AMORITES

31. CAPITAL CITY OF THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE

32. BABYLON

33. KING OF THE BABYLONIANS

34. HAMMURABI

35. THIS GROUP FROM ASIA MINOR CONQUERED BABYLON THE FIRST TO USE IRON WEAPONS

36. HITTITES