Lesson 5: The Rise of Sumerian City-States Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. fine particles of rock
  2. 5. to keep something in good condition by making necessary repairs
  3. 6. to build;usually some kind of structure, such as a house
  4. 10. in ancient times, the geographic areas located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  5. 11. River the western of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
  6. 13. a strong disagreement
  7. 14. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
Down
  1. 2. a means of supplying land with water
  2. 3. arranged in a difficult way
  3. 4. the eastern of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
  4. 7. an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
  5. 8. a substance that lies between or above other things
  6. 9. a resource that can be used to make something else
  7. 12. an area in southern Mesopotamia where first appeared