Across
- 2. The belief in many (2 or more) gods
- 3. A male monarch/leader of a territory or country
- 5. A person who buys and sells goods to make a living
- 7. coming from or connected with God or a god
- 8. A long poem that tells stories about a legendary hero. It usually can be broken down into smaller storie
- 10. A system for bringing water to farmland to help plants grow
- 11. A traditional story that explains something about the world (like how it began). It is not based on fact, and usually involves the supernatural (gods, spirits, etc.)
- 14. a rule that governments make and that people in a society must obey.
- 17. Extra, more than what you need
- 18. A wall of earth made by humans to hold back water and try to stop floods
- 19. A person who writes for another person and copies documents as their job. An ancient record-keeper and writer
- 20. dust-like soil that gets left behind by floods, which turns to fertile mud used for farming and home-building
- 21. able to produce a lot of plants or crops, containing lots of nutrients
Down
- 1. the system of ancient writing invented in Sumer. The name comes from the wedge shape of the stylus pressed into wet clay
- 2. a god (or deity) that belongs to and protects a particular place or profession
- 4. a waterway made by people, for the purpose of transportation or to carry/control water & irrigate farms
- 6. A building for religious worship
- 9. An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
- 12. A person who leads or performs religious ceremonies. In Mesopotamia, they were considered nobility (upper class)
- 13. relating to/having to do with fairness, what is just (right)
- 15. A large group of states or countries unified under a single supreme authority (a king/queen, emperor/empress)
- 16. A large, extremely dry area of land with very few plants