Fertile Crescent Lessons 1-3

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Across
  1. 5. grand stone pillar
  2. 6. money; something used for exchange
  3. 7. payment or gift to a stronger power
  4. 11. state (country) containing several countries or territories
  5. 15. independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
  6. 16. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
  7. 17. soldiers on horseback
  8. 18. improve; to change for the better
  9. 19. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
  10. 20. to be in charge of; to control or rule
  11. 22. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
Down
  1. 1. the worship of many gods
  2. 2. separate, diverse, different
  3. 3. a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
  4. 4. principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
  5. 8. brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
  6. 9. gain in wealth
  7. 10. wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
  8. 12. army a permanent army of professional soldiers
  9. 13. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
  10. 14. to supply water to
  11. 21. representing the best