Across
- 2. The study of Earth and its people
- 5. Babylonian king who created harsh laws
- 11. Belief in one god
- 12. Akkadian king who conquered Mesopotamia
- 14. A rectangular tiered temple built by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- 15. Desert in Egypt
- 16. "The land between the rivers"
- 18. Group of many different lands under one ruler
- 19. Branches of the Nile River that empty out in the Mediterranean Sea
- 22. People trained in skills or crafts
- 23. Measures distances east and west of the prime meridian (vertical line)
- 26. Belief in many gods
- 27. Groups of traveling merchants
- 30. People who study the stars, planets and phases of the moon
Down
- 1. Watering of crops
- 3. To have more than what you need to survive
- 4. The weather conditions in a place over a long period of time
- 6. Human-made objects
- 7. A line of rulers from one family
- 8. Record keepers
- 9. Waterway that Egyptians relied on
- 10. Wild rapids on the Nile River
- 13. Complex societies
- 17. Remains of early life preserved in the ground
- 20. The Epic of ____ was an epic poem from Mesopotamia
- 21. Ancient Sumerian writing form
- 24. Egyptian kings
- 25. Reed plant that grew along the shores of the Nile
- 28. Old Stone Age
- 29. People who move from place to place