Mesopotamia

2. Believing in many gods.
6. Crescent/ A region stretching from the Persian Gulf north west up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and west over the Mediterranean sea.
10. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
11. A temple built atop a series of increasingly smaller platforms.

1. State/ A political unit made up of a city and its surroundings.
3. Code/ One of the world's first law codes, compiled by the ruler Hammurabi.
4. An advanced form of culture that developed in cities.
5. A region of city-states in Mesopotamia that was home to the first civilization.
7. The first-known writing system, which used wedge-shaped symbols and was developed in sumer.
8. Civilization/ an ancient civilization that developed along the indus river.
9. The fine soil carried by rivers and deposited on nearby lands.
12. A network of horizontal and vertical lines that create squares or rectangles