Across
- 3. like a small independent country with its own laws and government
- 5. the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 8. the more southern river flowing from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
Down
- 1. a means of supplying the land with water
- 2. fine particles of rock
- 4. an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
- 6. the more northern river flowing from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
- 7. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks