Chapter Four

1. A set of official laws.
4. A belief in more than one god.
7. A person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper.
10. A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.
11. A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory.
13. Fine particles of fertile soil.
14. A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.

1. A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels.
2. A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
3. A person who studies planets and stars.
5. A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
6. A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
8. A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler.
9. An amount that is left over after a need has been met.
12. A payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender.