Introduction to Civilization and Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. a tool used by potters to form pottery
  2. 6. a huge stone monument
  3. 7. Sumerians built a math system based on this number
  4. 8. the type of economy used in early communities
  5. 9. a person who moved their settlement to follow their source of food
  6. 12. Hammurabi's code makes no reference to punishment from these
  7. 13. a person who writes for their job
  8. 15. world's first system of writing
  9. 16. division of society by rank or class
  10. 18. one of the rivers in Mesopotamia
  11. 19. a pyramid-shaped temple tower
  12. 20. a tool pulled by oxen to break up soil
  13. 21. a person who leads religious ceremonies
  14. 26. a set of laws given by a leader or government
  15. 27. an area that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea with rich soil
  16. 28. a famous Neolithic community
  17. 29. more food than needed; the thing that is necessary for civilization to begin
Down
  1. 1. land with different territories and people under a single ruler
  2. 2. believing in many gods
  3. 3. the theme of geography that describes the Mesopotamian farmers using irrigation
  4. 4. the modern day country where Mesopotamia was located
  5. 5. a long poem that usually tells a story about a hero
  6. 10. a king who became a mythological hero
  7. 11. the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
  8. 14. another term for farming crops and raising animals
  9. 16. a mixture of rich soil from the bottom of rivers that helped crops grow
  10. 17. this is what happens when people specialize in different jobs
  11. 22. the king known for his code of law
  12. 23. systems that move water from one place to another
  13. 24. the idea that no one is exempt from following the laws
  14. 25. a sharp tool that was used to write in cuneiform
  15. 30. a king who created the first empire