Across
- 3. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- 5. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
- 10. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
- 14. A religion that developed in early Persia and stressed the fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil and how eventually the forces of good would prevail.
- 15. the taming of animals and food for human use, such as work or as food
- 16. massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities.
- 17. A skilled craftsperson
- 18. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began (2 words, no spaces)
Down
- 1. Belief in one God
- 2. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
- 4. the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety (3 words, no spaces)
- 6. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
- 7. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
- 8. A religion with a belief in one God that originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people
- 9. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
- 10. the first system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables that originated in Mesopotamia with the Sumerians
- 11. a series of rulers from the same family
- 12. belief in more than one god
- 13. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.