Mesopotamia Geography

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