Complex Societies

3. a collection of ancient stories that help explain the world
6. belief in many gods
9. a god or goddess adopted and honored by a community; every Sumerian city-state had its own
10. a system in which people or groups are ranked and given high or low social status
13. a large territory consisting of many states or countries under one ruler
14. words of lasting value, either written or spoken, that are generally considered to be a work of art

1. an ancient Egyptian system of writing using pictures and letter sounds
2. a city that, along with its surrounding territory, forms an independent state
4. the monarch (king or queen) of ancient Egypt or Nubia; the religious, military, and political leader
5. the system of ancient writing invented in Sumer; the name comes from the wedge shape of a stylus pressed into wet clay
7. a person who works as a professional writer for the government or for a business
8. a waterway made by people to control water and irrigate farms
11. to overcome or take over another group of people by force; usually done by a government
12. a temple that is a massive building with rising layers