World History -- Chapter 4

2. Means "to rise high;" a large temple that was thought to be a god's home
3. Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
5. A large sea between two continents, southern Europe and northern Africa
9. An area of rich farmland between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
12. Groups of merchants or citizens traveling together for safety over long distances
14. Babylonian king who established Sumeria
15. The civilization that rebelled against and conquered the Assyrian Empire
17. The earliest system of writing in which wedge-shaped characters were made by using a sharp reed on wet clay
18. Forced payments taken from conquered people
19. Land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first civilizations developed

1. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops
4. Administrative areas into which a country is divided, similar to our present-day concept of states
6. Large, militarized empire that emerged about 1000 years after Hammurabi
7. The belief in or worship of more than one god
8. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
10. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
11. A long poem that tells the story of a hero
13. Fine particles of fertile soil
16. A person who writes things down; an official record-keeper
20. A worker skilled in a craft