Mesopotamia Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 4. a Jewish religious leader, scholar and/or teacher
  2. 5. political divisions within a nation
  3. 8. the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization
  4. 13. an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river
  5. 14. settlements that independently govern themselves and the surrounding area
  6. 16. the area created when one nation or group takes control of others
  7. 19. a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
  8. 20. groups of people who make homes in a new land but who are ruled by the nation from which they came
  9. 21. a god or goddess
  10. 22. a freestanding carved stone monument
Down
  1. 1. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (in Greek, means between the rivers)
  2. 2. a contained path for transporting water in order to irrigate agricultural land
  3. 3. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth
  4. 6. The region of the Middle East and NE Africa containing rich soil which allowed for farming and the development of the earliest civilizations; known as the Cradle of Civilization
  5. 7. a belief in many gods/goddesses
  6. 9. a Mesopotamian temple in the form of a step pyramid
  7. 10. belief in only one god
  8. 11. wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
  9. 12. soldiers who fight on horseback
  10. 15. the Jewish place of worship
  11. 17. a model for future actions or laws
  12. 18. a metal made from copper and tin but is harder than either of these soft metals