Mesopotamia Vocab - Final
Across
- 1. An arc of fertile farmland between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
- 3. one of the important rivers of Mesopotamia
- 6. the gulf that is to the east of Mesopotamia
- 9. a rule made by an authority and that must be obeyed
- 10. one of the important rivers of Mesopotamia
- 11. Rectangular shaped tower, a mesopotamian temple, pyramid shaped, shrine at the top
- 13. the practice of growing crops and raising livestock
- 14. Producing or able to produce farm crops or other plant life
- 15. A monarchy is a form of government where a single person, called a monarch, has supreme authority over a country or nation
- 16. A writing system that uses wedge shaped characters
- 18. The supplying of water to land by man-made means
- 19. an independent city — and sometimes its surrounding land — which has its own government, completely separate from nearby country
Down
- 2. An extra amount of something
- 4. the system of relationships, roles, and institutions that organize how people interact within a society
- 5. Land between the rivers
- 7. The belief in more than one god
- 8. A society having such things as a system of government and laws, using a written language, and keeping written records
- 12. farming tool pulled by ox
- 17. The belief in one god