Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

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Across
  1. 5. Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
  2. 6. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
  3. 7. A pyramid shaped temple tower
  4. 13. A ruler of a kingdom or empire
  5. 14. The worship of and belief in many gods
  6. 15. city
  7. 16. 2340 B.C. leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the first empire
  8. 18. a person who writes things down
  9. 19. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  10. 20. countryside
  11. 22. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
  12. 23. The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
  13. 24. the science of building
  14. 25. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
Down
  1. 1. A wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart
  2. 2. An organized society within a specific area
  3. 3. the division of society by rank or class
  4. 4. A way of supplying water to an area of land
  5. 8. A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland
  6. 9. human-made waterways
  7. 10. More of something than is needed
  8. 11. The city of Babylon's greatest monarch and writer of the world's first code of laws.
  9. 12. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
  10. 14. Writing using picture symbols
  11. 17. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
  12. 21. people who performed religious ceremonies