Across
- 1. a person who copies or writes out documents often a record keeper
- 5. a person who studies stars, planets, and the moon
- 6. a pyramidshaped tower with a temple on top
- 8. a group of many different lands under one ruler
- 11. a Sumerian writing system that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
- 12. an independent nation made up of a city and the land around it
Down
- 2. a group of merchants travelling together for safety, usually a large number of camels
- 3. a way to supply dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
- 4. a belief in more than one god
- 7. a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender
- 8. a long poem that tells the story of a hero
- 9. a district with a larger country or empire
- 10. small particles of fertile soil