Ancient Mesopotamia

2. A person skilled in an utilitarian art, craft, or trade.
3. A pictorial sign or symbol.
6. structure The system or complex of beliefs held by members of a social group.
7. A temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower.
9. river A river in southwestern Asia that flowers through Eastern Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
11. Having the form of a wedge, ancient writing.
14. A sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city.
15. A region in southern Mesopotamia that had a number of independent cities and city-states.
16. A person who buys and sells commodities for profit.
17. A branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life.
18. River A river in south west Asia.

1. Earthly matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
4. The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern.
5. A person who serves as a professional copyist.
8. Artificial application of water to land to assist with the production of crops.
10. A advanced state of human society which a high level of science, culture, industry, and government has been reached.
12. An embankment designed to prevent the flooding of water.
13. A region in West Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates river.