Across
- 5. human-made waterways
- 8. the world's first system of writing
- 10. more than they needed
- 12. city
- 14. One of Uruk's kings, a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
- 17. the type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
- 18. picture symbols
- 19. the science of building
- 20. the worship of many gods
- 22. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 23. a set of letters that can be combined to form words
- 24. consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
- 25. people who performed religious ceremonies
- 27. a part or function
Down
- 1. effect or result
- 2. countryside
- 3. wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
- 4. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
- 6. the most famous Chaldean king
- 7. writer
- 9. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- 10. the division of society by rank or class
- 11. rebelled against the Sumerian ruler, was the first military leader to use soldiers armed with bows and arrows
- 13. a large arc of rich, or fertile, farming land
- 15. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 16. A pyramid-shaped temple tower
- 21. land with different territories and people under a single rule
- 26. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks