Across
- 3. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
- 8. a making or becoming specialized.
- 11. the monotheistic religion of the Jews.
- 12. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
Down
- 1. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
- 2. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
- 3. of hammurabi/ The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.
- 4. writing consisting of hieroglyphics
- 5. exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
- 6. Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria and to a much lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.
- 7. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
- 9. crescent/ The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa, it was also near Asia Minor or known as Anatolia.
- 10. diffusion/ the spreading of atmospheric constituents or properties by turbulent motion as well as molecular motion of the air. 6. Anthropology, Sociology. Also called cultural diffusion. the transmission of elements or features of one culture to another.