Mesopotamia Lesson 1 & 2

2. The division of society by rank or class
4. An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task or job
6. A pyramid shaped temple tower
9. A person who writes things down
11. More of something than is needed
12. An organized society within a specific area
13. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
15. The science of building
17. A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
18. Writing using picture symbols
20. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
21. 2340 B.C. leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-states and set up the first empire

1. People who performed religious ceremonies
3. The worship of and belief in many gods
5. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks left behind by rivers
7. A way of supplying water to an area of land
8. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
10. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
13. Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
14. The countryside
16. A city
19. human-made waterways