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