Mesopotamia Geography

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Across
  1. 4. Oldest Mesopotamian settlement
  2. 8. brought water to the crops from the
  3. 10. forced people to move from the
  4. 12. very fine mud
  5. 15. Sea
  6. 18. surrounds a city-state for protection
  7. 20. to flow farmland during droughts
  8. 22. located
  9. 24. Sumerians built this to control the
  10. 25. earth walls to help prevent flooding
  11. 26. water levels in a canal
  12. 27. to the river valleys
  13. 28. "land between the rivers"
Down
  1. 1. Gulf
  2. 2. one of the rivers within the Fertile
  3. 3. low lying, flat land
  4. 5. modern-day country in which Mesopotamia
  5. 6. are poked into the leeves to allow
  6. 7. main reason for fighting between
  7. 9. Mesopotamians moved from here to the
  8. 11. valley
  9. 13. controlled the flow of trade on the
  10. 14. region in the Middle East; shaped like
  11. 16. river that empties into the
  12. 17. special gates that raised and lowered
  13. 19. independent self-governing city
  14. 21. located outside the city wall
  15. 23. created to store water for later use