Across
- 4. Official writer or record-keeper
- 6. Farmers grew extra crops beyond what they and their families needed
- 7. A specific area with something in common that sets it apart from other areas
- 8. Pulling out resources like water or minerals from the land
- 11. Settlement ruled by a distant country
- 14. Men controlled property, inheritance and political power
- 15. The Sumerians and Babylonians worshipped many different gods
- 17. System of supplying water to farmland to help crops grow
- 18. Small independent city and its surrounding lands
- 19. Traded goods like grain, tools, and pottery with neighboring regions
Down
- 1. Pyramid with terraced levels used for religious purposes
- 2. Region between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- 3. Process of taming animals or growing plants for human use
- 5. Wedge-shaped marks pressed into tablets to record things
- 9. How the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ran to create the valley
- 10. A system of letters for writing a language
- 12. Area of land that had its own local officials but one central ruler
- 13. Fertile Crescent was made up of rich soil and rivers
- 16. Way to avoid conflict or acknowledge the ruler's authority
- 20. Helped keep order and decide what is right or wrong