Mesopotamia Wise Words

4. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumerian city-states
7. an especially fine and fertile soil
8. a substance from which other things are made
10. the things, both cultural and technological, left to us from past cultures
12. a category of people based on wealth or status in a society
13. a tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection
15. the earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians
16. heritage the legacy of a group’s or society’s attributes passed down from generation to generation
18. the supply of water to fields using human-made systems
19. a group of people that settles in a new land but keeps ties to its native country
20. the story of human life on Earth over the centuries
21. a belief in many gods

1. a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements; a city that controls the surrounding villages and towns
2. a group of different lands and people governed by one ruler
3. an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger
5. an administrative district of a larger empire or country
6. a partnership
8. a formal series of acts always performed in the same way; a religious ceremony
9. a technique in which figures are raised slightly above a flat base
11. a person skilled at making things by hand
14. a governor of a province in the Persian Empire
17. the sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others