Fertile Crescent Lessons 1-3

5. grand stone pillar
6. money; something used for exchange
7. payment or gift to a stronger power
11. state (country) containing several countries or territories
15. independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
16. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
17. soldiers on horseback
18. improve; to change for the better
19. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
20. to be in charge of; to control or rule
22. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things

1. the worship of many gods
2. separate, diverse, different
3. a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
4. principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
8. brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
9. gain in wealth
10. wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
12. army a permanent army of professional soldiers
13. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
14. to supply water to
21. representing the best