Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 5. economic system involving the exchange of goods
  2. 7. people who move in search of food
  3. 9. first known set of laws in Babylon
  4. 10. epic poem about this king and his heroic deeds
  5. 13. spread of ideas and customs
  6. 14. pyramid-like temple built to honor city-state's god
  7. 15. river on the southern side of the fertile crescent
  8. 16. independent communities ruled by kings surrounded by walls
  9. 18. change from food gathering to producing
  10. 19. river on the northern side of the fertile crescent
  11. 20. solution to the problem of no natural barriers
  12. 21. name of the first Mesopotamian empire
Down
  1. 1. belief in many gods
  2. 2. system of wedge shaped writing
  3. 3. land between two rivers
  4. 4. body of water into which the two rivers empty
  5. 6. word to describe river flooding
  6. 8. period where tools were made of a mixture of copper and tin
  7. 11. use of dams and canals to control flooding
  8. 12. first known civilization
  9. 17. government where priests served as kings