Early River Valley Civilizations
Across
- 4. a city with its own government
- 7. separate peoples and nations controlled by a single state
- 8. farming, growing and raising crops and animals
- 10. first set of written laws, found in ancient Babylon
- 12. civilization by the Yellow River
- 13. The belief in many gods
- 14. A person who records information
- 15. civilization by the Nile River
- 17. complex society with cities, specialized labor, record keeping, technology, and complex institutions such as government and religion
- 20. buying, selling, or exchanging goods
- 22. creation of waterways to carry water to crops
- 23. people constantly on the move without a permanent home
Down
- 1. area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- 2. extra, an amount more than what is needed
- 3. a Mesopotamian temple
- 5. belief in one god
- 6. When humans began to practice agriculture
- 9. To make useful for humans
- 11. government with a king or queen
- 16. soil that is carried down river and has many nutrients
- 18. government with a religious ruler
- 19. type of writing with wedges and curves carved in clay
- 21. period after the stone age where people made tools from a mixture of tin and copper