Across
- 4. first known writing system, which used wedge-shaped symbols
- 5. Forced removal from one’s homeland,
- 9. course of action chosen by a government
- 12. drawings that represent a word
- 14. written rules for people to obey
- 15. people who specialized in writing and record keeping
- 16. fine fertile soil
- 17. tax payment
- 18. temple built atop a series of increasingly smaller platforms
Down
- 1. increase in size or volume
- 2. concentrated flowing of water
- 3. land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 5. group of territories and people brought together under one supreme leader
- 6. flat land bordering the banks of a river
- 7. watering dry land by using ditches, pipes, or streams
- 8. governor
- 10. long period of little or no rainfall
- 11. governmental divisions like states
- 12. belief in many gods and goddesses
- 13. excess of what is needed