Across
- 5. a writer
- 8. a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
- 9. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
- 12. finely ground fertile soil
- 13. the science of building
- 14. people who perform religious ceremonies
- 16. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 17. the world's first system of writing
- 18. hierarchy the division of society by rank or class
- 19. long poems that tell stories of heros
- 20. a pyramid-shaped temple in sumer
- 21. the worship of many gods
Down
- 1. human-made waterways
- 2. where the world's first civilization was developed
- 3. a set of letters used to make words
- 4. code a set of 282 laws governing different things in life
- 6. a political unit consisting of a city and a surrounding countryside
- 7. crescent a large arc of fertile land between the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean sea
- 10. picture symbols
- 11. an ancient city in mesopotamia
- 12. more than is needed
- 15. of labor each worker specializes in a different job