Mesopotamia Crossword

3. Method of supplying water to an area of land or crops.
4. Political districts in which officials are chosen to govern and enforce the rulers laws.
6. A region of the Middle East, that stretches in a large crescent shaped curve, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
10. A form of government in which priests and/or kings rule in the name of god or a deity as the supreme rule
11. Territories and groups of people from different lands under one single rule.
13. Long poems that tell story’s of heroes
14. Meaning "the land between rivers" located in the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent.
15. Massive religious temples built by the Sumerians.

1. Capable of producing abundant crops
2. Record keepers who held honored positions in society
5. are complex societies. They have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, writing systems, etc.
7. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
8. A belief in many gods
9. Sumerian writing consisting of wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets.
12. A city that has its own government and rules over its own territory.