Fertile Crescent and Sumer

6. the science of building buildings
8. a way of controlling or supplying water
10. those tasked with writing everything down on clay tablets
12. man-made waterways
13. the land between the rivers
14. the fancy word for farming
15. the political, religious, cultural, and economic centers of civilization
17. the act of creating something for the first time, such as math, medicine, and science
18. a way of making wealth by exchanging goods

1. the two rivers in the Fertile Crescent were the Tigris and (blank)
2. the belief in many different gods and goddesses
3. religious leaders, sometimes more powerful than the king
4. a large temple in the middle of every major city-state. Believed to be the home of the gods
5. civilization in southern Mesopotamia
7. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
9. the first major writing system invented
11. an organized society within a specific area
12. people in society were divided into one of these
16. a large area of rich farmland in the shape of a crescent