Across
- 3. a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams
- 4. a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender
- 5. a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
- 8. a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
- 9. a person who copies or writes out document; often a record keeper
- 11. fine particles of fertile soil
- 13. a person who studies planets and stars
Down
- 1. a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
- 2. an amount that is left over after a need has been met
- 5. a system of writing developed by Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks in soft clay
- 6. a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
- 7. a belief in more than one god
- 10. a groups of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels
- 12. a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler