Fertile Crescent All Words
Across
- 4. the spread of culture traits from one region to another
- 6. a binding agreement
- 8. Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- 9. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
- 11. a group organized for a purpose
- 13. a good or service brought in from another country for sale
- 15. belief in only one god
- 19. belief about what is right and wrong
- 21. wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
- 24. a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
- 27. the idea that all citizens, even the most powerful, are subject to the law
- 30. to be in charge of; to control or rule
- 31. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
Down
- 1. representing the best
- 2. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
- 3. An idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
- 5. an independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
- 7. payment or gift to a stronger power
- 10. art of steering a ship from place to place
- 12. a rule that their God wanted the Israelites to follow
- 14. brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
- 16. state containing several countries or territories
- 17. soldiers on horseback
- 18. group of people living a new territory with ties to a distant state
- 20. a permanent army of professional soldiers
- 22. grand stone pillar
- 23. money; something used for exchange
- 25. to supply water to
- 26. a set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
- 27. to improve
- 28. First five books of the Hebrew Bible
- 29. A good or service produced in the home country and sold in another country.