Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  2. 5. a legendary Sumerian king and hero of a legend
  3. 8. each worker has a unique job (teacher, doctor, farmer, ...) also known as division of labor
  4. 9. the division of society by rank or class
  5. 13. A society that lived north of Sumer in around 2300 BCE
  6. 14. belief in or worship of more than one god
  7. 15. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  8. 16. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  9. 17. ancient Sumerian city, with a powerful government near what is now Baghdad near the Euphrates
  10. 20. writer
  11. 21. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks brought in by river floods, that makes land ideal for farming
  12. 22. people who performed or led religious ceremonies
  13. 24. a central city and all the countryside around it
Down
  1. 1. picture symbols
  2. 3. 282 laws that dealt with everyday life in Babylon
  3. 4. a large arc of rich farmland from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranian Sea
  4. 6. an organized society within a specific area.
  5. 7. the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied (after Christmas sale)
  6. 10. a pyramid-shaped temple that rose high above each city
  7. 11. the world's first writing system, using styluses and clay tablets
  8. 12. human-made waterways used for irrigation
  9. 18. the science of building
  10. 19. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the site of the world's first civilization.
  11. 23. the division of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia in around 3000 BCE