Mesopotamian Geography and Early Development

4. The transfer of the ownership of goods or services, from one person or entity to another, in exchange money goods or services. Similar to bartering.
7. The belief in multiple gods or goddesses in religion.
10. A business person who trades things made by other people (artisans) in order to make profit.
12. A method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture.
13. A person who has the ability to write in ancient times. Often used to keep records for the government.
14. A skilled worker who makes or fixes things by hand.
15. Two parallel rivers in Iraq and Syria where civilization first developed around. They flood annually providing rich farmland for humans to use.

1. Any person who has god-like powers. Also can be another name for a god.
2. A man-made earthen wall designed to keep a river within it bank or to separate different farm fields.
3. Also called the "cradle of civilization", an area modern day Iraq, Syria and Turkey where human civilization developed.
5. A tool that is used by farmers to carve open the ground and help farmers prepare it for planting.
6. Natural materials such as minerals, forests, water and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used by people for economic gain.
8. The "land between the river" a general names for the area and the people where civilization first developed.
9. A religious temple. Multiple tiered building that were the biggest and most important building within a Mesopotamian city-state
11. A small independent city that operates like a tiny country. Controls city and lands surrounding with own government.