Mesopotamia review

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Across
  1. 4. army a permanent army of professional soldiers
  2. 8. a state containing several countries or territories
  3. 10. a weekly day of rest
  4. 12. a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
  5. 13. the southern part of ancient Mesopotamia
  6. 15. person believed to be chosen by God to bring truth to the people
  7. 16. a binding agreement
  8. 20. separation from one’s homeland
  9. 21. a state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
  10. 22. trait an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
  11. 25. to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services
  12. 26. the escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
  13. 27. a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power
  14. 29. an order to do something
  15. 31. a Jewish religious teacher
  16. 32. a small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
  17. 33. a group of soldiers who fight while riding horses
  18. 34. very small particles left as sediment from water
  19. 36. in the Hebrew Bible, a leader who could rally the Israelites to defend their land
  20. 37. a language made up of or written with marks or letters shaped like wedges
  21. 38. to supply land and crops with water
  22. 40. Jewish communities outside the ancient Jewish homeland, from a Greek word meaning dispersion, or scattering
  23. 41. diffusion the spreading of cultural traits from one culture to another
Down
  1. 1. fairness or fair treatment
  2. 2. belief in a single god
  3. 3. Jewish house of worship
  4. 5. the art of steering a ship from place to place
  5. 6. belief in or worship of more than one god
  6. 7. acting or living in a way that is ethically right and obeys God’s laws
  7. 9. of law the idea that all members of a society must obey the law; key part of modern democratic principles
  8. 11. beliefs about what is right and wrong
  9. 14. a good or service produced within a country and sold outside of that country’s borders
  10. 16. a group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
  11. 17. an independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
  12. 18. Crescent semicircle of fertile land created by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that stretches from the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea through the Syrian Desert north of Arabia to the Persian Gulf
  13. 19. a grand stone pillar
  14. 23. Code a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire
  15. 24. money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
  16. 28. the collection of oral teachings and commentaries about the Hebrew Bible and Jewish law
  17. 30. a region in the Middle East near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  18. 35. the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
  19. 39. a tall temple pyramid in ancient Mesopotamia with outside staircases and a shrine at the top