World History & Geography

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Across
  1. 1. a deposit of sediment (as by a river)
  2. 6. A way of supplying fresh water to an area of farmland.
  3. 8. An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.
  4. 9. Stepped pyramid shaped temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses.
  5. 11. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. This was the First Civilization.
  6. 12. a location’s distance north or south os equator
  7. 13. a wind that shifts in direction at a certain time each year
  8. 15. A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
Down
  1. 2. a location’s distance east or west of prime meridian
  2. 3. people that make map
  3. 4. the study of Earth
  4. 5. When a ruling family passes the power down from father to son in a long succession
  5. 7. a system of writing with wedge shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
  6. 10. When a culture or person believes in more than one god.
  7. 14. a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water