Ancient Mesopotamia

2. A region in southern Mesopotamia that had a number of independent cities and city-states.
4. A person who buys and sells commodities for profit.
6. Earthly matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
9. A temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower.
10. Artificial application of water to land to assist with the production of crops.
13. The system or complex of beliefs held by members of a social group.
14. The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern.
15. A person who serves as a professional copyist.
16. Having the form of a wedge, ancient writing.

1. A branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life.
3. A pictorial sign or symbol.
4. A region in West Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
5. A river in south west Asia.
7. A river in southwestern Asia that flowers through Eastern Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
8. A sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city.
11. A person skilled in an utilitarian art, craft, or trade.
12. An embankment designed to prevent the flooding of water.
14. A advanced state of human society which a high level of science, culture, industry, and government has been reached.