Across
- 2. A permanent army of professional soldiers
- 4. An idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
- 9. A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire.
- 11. The idea that all members of a society must obey the law
- 12. Brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian Temple
- 13. A carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end
- 14. region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east
- 15. A payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power, but the amount of tribute was often set by the ruler.
- 17. system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas and thing
Down
- 1. Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- 3. Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
- 5. Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
- 6. A state containing several countries or territories
- 7. Wide flat plain in between Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq.
- 8. Worship of many gods or deities
- 10. To supply water to
- 16. Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
- 18. An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal