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