Sumer & Mesopotamia Geography

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Across
  1. 3. in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  2. 7. a structure built across a river to control the river’s flow
  3. 8. the business of buying & selling or exchanging goods and needed items
  4. 9. fine particles of rock that could clog irrigation canals
  5. 12. random, unreliable, uncertain
  6. 14. an arc-shaped area in southwest Asia, with rich soil, currently referred to as the Middle East
  7. 15. an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
  8. 17. having of deep knowledge or becoming an expert in a certain specific skill
  9. 18. all of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants and climate
  10. 19. to tame and keep / raise as a pet or as a part of food resource
Down
  1. 1. man-made waterway used for irrigation and transportation
  2. 2. one of the two largest rivers in the east of Mesopotamia that flow out of the Taurus Mountains through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
  3. 4. an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
  4. 5. the science or practice of farming & growing crops & raising animals
  5. 6. the result of humans becoming farmers and having a surplus of food
  6. 10. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding over its banks
  7. 11. a way to supply water to land & crops
  8. 13. the study of how humans interact with their environment
  9. 16. one of the two largest rivers in the west of Mesopotamia that flow out of the Taurus Mountains through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf