Across
- 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
Down
- 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