Across
- 1. leader of a tribe or village
- 3. a form of writing based on wedge-shaped impressions made in clay with reeds
- 4. a god or goddess
- 5. of labor, people specializing in different jobs
- 7. a form of government where a god or deity is the ruler
- 9. right, the belief that the right to rule comes directly from a god
- 10. cities that work as separate kingdoms with their own governments
- 13. temples shaped like pyramids made of clay bricks with steps leading to the top
- 14. a fertile valley "between two rivers" in the Middle East where society started to develop
- 15. class, groups of people ranked by social status
Down
- 1. society organized around cities with a government and a system of food production and a system of writing and art and specialization
- 2. the belief in many gods
- 6. of Gilgamesh, the oldest found story in the world
- 7. groups of families that live together
- 8. workers skilled in a certain craft
- 11. professional writers who could work as a teacher or lawyer or leader or copying tablets
- 12. the first civilization in Mesopotamia which developed around 4000 BCE