Across
- 2. Crescent A curved region with rich soil where early farming began
- 4. One of the earliest systems of writing
- 6. An independent city with its own government and laws
- 9. The ruler of ancient Egypt
- 10. A natural event that could both help and harm early farmers
- 14. One of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia
- 15. The people who built some of the world’s first cities
- 16. An ancient civilization that grew along a major river
- 17. A stepped temple tower built by the Sumerians
Down
- 1. Picture symbols used in Egyptian writing
- 3. Large stone tombs built for Egyptian kings
- 5. The river that made farming possible in Egypt
- 7. The second major river that helped early cities grow
- 8. The material used to make early writing tablets
- 11. A system for bringing water to crops
- 12. The land between two rivers where the first civilizations formed
- 13. Preserved bodies prepared for the afterlife