Module 3: The Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire

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Across
  1. 2. referring to a countryside area
  2. 4. long poem that tells the story of a hero
  3. 6. a person who performs religious ceremonies
  4. 9. a picture symbol
  5. 15. a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
  6. 16. an organized society that functions within established geographic boundaries
  7. 17. the science of building
  8. 19. a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming
  9. 20. the world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer
  10. 23. a human-made waterway
  11. 24. a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
  12. 25. a writer
Down
  1. 1. the division of society by class or rank
  2. 3. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
  3. 5. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
  4. 7. an arrangement in which each worker specialized in a particular task or job
  5. 8. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
  6. 10. more of something than is needed
  7. 11. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  8. 12. a unit of soldiers who ride horses
  9. 13. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  10. 14. the worship of many gods
  11. 18. a set of 282 laws governing the daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
  12. 21. referring to a city area
  13. 22. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer