Chapter 2.1 Social Studies Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. gain in wealth
  2. 5. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
  3. 7. separate, different
  4. 10. a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
Down
  1. 1. brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
  2. 2. wide, flat plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
  3. 4. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
  4. 6. worship of many gods or deities
  5. 8. to supply water to
  6. 9. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things