Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. a group of traveling merchants and animals
  2. 3. a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
  3. 7. a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
  4. 8. a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler
  5. 9. a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper
  6. 11. a belief in more than one god
Down
  1. 2. a person who studies planets and stars
  2. 4. a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
  3. 5. writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
  4. 6. payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender, protection, and/or
  5. 10. fine particles of fertile soil