Fertile Crescent Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. belief in more than one god
  2. 7. the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety
  3. 10. the first system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables that originated in Mesopotamia with the Sumerians
  4. 11. A religion with a belief in one God that originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people
  5. 12. region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
  6. 13. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
  7. 16. massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities.
  8. 17. A religion that developed in early Persia and stressed the fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil and how eventually the forces of good would prevail.
  9. 18. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
Down
  1. 1. a series of rulers from the same family
  2. 2. Belief in one God
  3. 4. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  4. 5. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
  5. 6. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
  6. 7. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
  7. 8. A skilled craftsperson
  8. 9. the taming of animals and food for human use, such as work or as food
  9. 14. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
  10. 15. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began