Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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