Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 1. leader of a tribe or village
  2. 3. a form of writing based on wedge-shaped impressions made in clay with reeds
  3. 4. a god or goddess
  4. 5. of labor, people specializing in different jobs
  5. 7. a form of government where a god or deity is the ruler
  6. 9. right, the belief that the right to rule comes directly from a god
  7. 10. cities that work as separate kingdoms with their own governments
  8. 13. temples shaped like pyramids made of clay bricks with steps leading to the top
  9. 14. a fertile valley "between two rivers" in the Middle East where society started to develop
  10. 15. class, groups of people ranked by social status
Down
  1. 1. society organized around cities with a government and a system of food production and a system of writing and art and specialization
  2. 2. the belief in many gods
  3. 6. of Gilgamesh, the oldest found story in the world
  4. 7. groups of families that live together
  5. 8. workers skilled in a certain craft
  6. 11. professional writers who could work as a teacher or lawyer or leader or copying tablets
  7. 12. the first civilization in Mesopotamia which developed around 4000 BCE