Ancient Sumeria

3. The Sumerians were the first to build carts using this invention, allowing them to take trade goods farther than they could without it
4. These pyramid-temples were often the largest buildings in Sumerian cities
6. The government system in most Sumerian city-states
9. One of the two rivers that forms the Fertile Crescent
10. The desert located southwest of Mesopotamia
13. The name given to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
15. The gulf located southeast of Mesopotamia
16. One of the two rivers that forms the Fertile Crescent
18. A stringed musical instrument invented by the Sumerians
19. The lack of stone and timber in the area meant that most Sumerian city-states were built with this material
20. An heroic figure of an epic Sumerian narrative poem

1. The sea located west of Mesopotamia
2. Areas where artisans lived and worked, the ancestor of the modern shopping mall
5. Round stones nearing a carved design, pressed into wet clay tablets as a way to sign them
7. Sumerian society had a distinct social ____________, in which the population was split into groups
8. Meaning "between rivers", this was the name the Greeks gave the Fertile Crescent area
11. The wedge-shaped writing system used in the Sumerian civilization
12. The Fertile Crescent is called the ________ of the world because it controls access to three continents
14. The first civilization, emerging in Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE
17. The Sumerian religion was ____________ and involved the worship of many gods and goddesses