Fertile Cresent and Mesopotamia Vocab
Across
- 3. the holy book of jewish people
- 5. long poems telling stories of heroes
- 6. a single leader of an empire or a kingdom
- 11. lands and people governed under a single rule
- 13. a city area
- 14. the knowledge, beliefs, customs and values a group of people have in common
- 17. a mixture of fertile soil that makes good for farming, often a result of flooding
- 19. sets and enforces laws and services in a religion
- 20. belief in one god
Down
- 1. belief in many gods
- 2. the worlds first monotheistic religion
- 4. a countryside area (farm)
- 7. a complex society with well-developed forms of government, religion, and learning
- 8. code one of the earliest known form of written laws to govern daily life
- 9. a system of writing based on pictures
- 10. the worlds first system of writing
- 12. a way to supply water to an area
- 15. a system that grants more power to some individuals and less to others
- 16. a self governing city and also surrounds a area
- 18. a religious building, like the top of ziggurat