Across
- 3. belief in more than one god
- 7. the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety
- 10. the first system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables that originated in Mesopotamia with the Sumerians
- 11. A religion with a belief in one God that originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people
- 12. region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
- 13. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
- 16. massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities.
- 17. 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.
- 18. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
Down
- 1. a series of rulers from the same family
- 2. Belief in one God
- 4. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- 5. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
- 6. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
- 7. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
- 8. A skilled craftsperson
- 9. the taming of animals and food for human use, such as work or as food
- 14. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
- 15. an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began