Ancient Civilizations

2. farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the raising of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
3. A member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water
8. Belief in many gods
10. a person who writes things down
11. king who established Babylonia and the first written codes of law
12. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

1. Belief in one God
4. to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control
5. a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
6. group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
7. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
9. The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years