Mesopotamia
Across
- 4. an amount the is more than needed
- 5. buying, selling or exchanging of goods
- 7. means "between two rivers"
- 8. raised earth used to hold back floodwaters
- 9. community with its own separate government
- 10. built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- 11. first civilization in Mesopotamia
- 13. society with cities, government, workers, social classes
- 14. person who can read and write
- 15. study of the universe started by Babylonians
- 16. system of moving water to needed area
- 17. modern country in the Anatolia peninsula
Down
- 1. Mesopotamia crescent-shaped fertile land
- 2. belief in more than one god
- 3. wedge shaped writing - first writing
- 4. paid, full-time army
- 6. collection of Babylonian Laws
- 12. temple found in the middle of the city