Ancient History Crossword

3. Groups of countries united under the power of a single ruler.
6. Present day Mesopotamia
8. A city that, with its surrounding territory, forms an independent state.
10. The land between the two rivers
11. Massive, Mespotamian pyramid-shaped, stepped tower and temple made of mud bricks.
13. A long poem that tells the heroic deeds of a character
16. The belief in many gods
17. The capital of Babylonia
18. King or queen;single head of a government

1. The name of it is similar to a season
2. A professional writer writes things down. In Mesopotamia, talented boys learned to read and write cuneiform on clay tablets, and to do mathematics.
4. A person who Buys and sells goods
5. Patricles of fertile soil
7. Has a set of laws named after him
9. Something some people thought was more important than war
12. First writing, created around 3000 B.C., created by the Sumerians, written with reed stylus on clay by trained scribes.
14. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, social classes, writing, systems of trade, transportation, religion, and architecture.
15. A skilled crafts-person; an important part of Mesopotamias middle class.