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Across
  1. 2. funnel Attached to their plows, seeds automatically dropped from funnel to soil
  2. 4. the Sumerian system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of words
  3. 5. human-made waterways, form of irrigation
  4. 8. hierarchy a division of society by rank or class
  5. 10. A system in which people make, exchange and use things that have value.
  6. 11. more of something than is needed
  7. 14. writer
  8. 16. A worker skilled in a craft
  9. 18. (n.) an exchange in trade; (v.) to exchange goods
  10. 20. land with different territories and people under a single rule
  11. 23. A broad, flat area of land higher than the surrounding land
  12. 25. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  13. 26. form of irrigation to keep the flood waters controlled
Down
  1. 1. picture symbols that represented objects such as trees or animals
  2. 3. of labor an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks
  3. 6. the planning and act of building
  4. 7. a mix of rich soil and small rocks
  5. 9. a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside. They had their own government, religion and way of life.
  6. 12. a mixture of copper and tin
  7. 13. government headed by a king
  8. 14. area of Mesopotamia where the world's first civilization was developed
  9. 15. Crescent a large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
  10. 17. to be successful
  11. 19. a set of letters that can be combined to form written words
  12. 21. Flat land
  13. 22. important Mesopotamian city-state near present-day Baghdad
  14. 24. a pyramid-shaped temple tower which was the most important building in the city state