Across
- 1. the earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians
- 4. a tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection
- 6. a belief in many gods
- 8. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumerian city-states
- 10. a person skilled at making things by hand
- 11. a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements; a city that controls the surrounding villages and towns
Down
- 2. an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger
- 3. a formal series of acts always performed in the same way; a religious ceremony
- 5. a group of different lands and people governed by one ruler
- 7. a category of people based on wealth or status in society
- 9. the supply of water to fields using human-made systems
- 12. an especially fine and fertile soil