Across
- 2. Professional writer
- 4. A traditional story that explains people’s beliefs
- 7. A region in Southwest Asia; site of the first civilizations
- 8. Market selling different kinds of goods
- 9. Powerful weapon with a wooden beam mounted on wheels
- 11. The belief in many gods
- 12. Groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent
Down
- 1. A Group of traders traveling together
- 3. Many territories and peoples controlled by one government
- 5. An organized list of laws and rules
- 6. A city that is also a separate, independent state (country)
- 8. The capital of Babylonia; a city of great wealth and luxury
- 10. A set of symbols that represents the sounds of the language