Across
- 2. State containing several countries or territories
- 11. Worship of many gods or deities
- 12. Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- 14. Idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
- 16. Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
- 17. A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
- 20. A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
- 22. Payment or gift to a stronger power
- 24. Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
Down
- 1. To supply water to
- 3. Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
- 4. Good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
- 5. Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders
- 6. Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
- 7. Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.
- 8. Art of steering a ship from place to place
- 9. Idea that all members of a society - even the rich and powerful - must obey the law
- 10. Brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
- 13. Spread of cultural traits from one culture to another
- 15. Soldiers who fight while riding horses
- 18. A permanent army of professional soldiers
- 19. Grand stone pillar
- 21. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
- 23. Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal