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