The Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Empire Vocab

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425
Across
  1. 5. the worship of many gods
  2. 10. the science of building
  3. 12. a person who performs religious ceremonies
  4. 14. a picture symbol
  5. 15. a series of wars between Persia and Greece in the 400s BC
  6. 17. referring to a city area
  7. 20. a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
  8. 21. the world’s first system of writing; developed in Sumer
  9. 22. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer
  10. 23. an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
  11. 24. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
  12. 25. a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
Down
  1. 1. more of something than is needed
  2. 2. a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
  3. 3. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
  4. 4. long poem that tells the story of a hero
  5. 6. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  6. 7. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
  7. 8. a human-made waterway
  8. 9. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
  9. 11. a unit of soldiers who ride horses
  10. 13. a writer
  11. 16. the division of society by rank or class
  12. 18. referring to a countryside area
  13. 19. a mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming
  14. 20. an organized society that functions within established geographic boundaries