Sumer to Salem:

1. Materials found in the earth that people need and value.
3. A crime so serious it could result in execution.
5. A system of beliefs explaining right and wrong in worship.
6. To try someone in a court of law.
10. An amount beyond what is required; excess.
12. A massive stepped temple made of mudbricks used for worship in Mesopotamia.
14. Exchange of goods without using money.
18. To train a wild animal or plant to be useful to humans.
19. To focus on one kind of work or job within a culture.
20. The practice of supposed magical skills, often feared in Puritan New England.

1. A complete change in ways of thinking, working, or living.
2. A way of supplying water to an area of land.
4. A disease causing seizures; sometimes mistaken for signs of witchcraft.
7. The world’s first civilization, located in Mesopotamia.
8. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes.
9. A formal questioning to gather information or truth.
11. Belief in many gods.
13. The colony founded as a Puritan settlement and home to Yale University.
15. Class A division of society based on social and economic status.
16. Land between the rivers — birthplace of civilization.
17. A system by which goods and services are produced and distributed.
21. When someone gives spoken evidence under oath.