Sumerian Civilization

3. Name for a Sumerian king
6. The wedge-shaped writing system developed by the Sumerians
7. A legendary Sumerian king of Uruk who is the hero of the world's oldest known epic poem.
9. The belief in many gods and goddesses
11. Meaning "land between the rivers"
12. A large, stepped temple tower built in the center of a Sumerian city-state
13. The longer of the two major rivers that define Mesopotamia

1. An independent city with its own ruler and laws.
2. A major Sumerian invention
4. A person whose job was to read and write cuneiform
5. A system of canals and dikes used to bring water from the rivers to the crops
8. The earliest known civilization in the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia
10. A wall of earth built alongside a river to prevent it from flooding