Across
- 1. the belief in one god
- 3. country where Mesopotamia is located
- 6. a metal made from mixing copper and tin
- 7. world's first civilization
- 9. these were used to help move carts easily
- 10. a written set of laws
- 13. wood that is used to build things
- 14. religious temples in ancient Sumer
- 20. type of animal used by Sumerian farmers to plow fields
- 21. an economic system that involves trading things
- 22. a type of writing containing simple pictures
- 24. an independent city and its surrounding land
- 26. they needed the support of priests to stay in power
- 27. writing tablets in Sumer were made of this
- 28. large rafts used to trade goods along rivers
Down
- 2. they were the lowest social class in Sumerian society
- 4. to gain wealth
- 5. a major crop of the Fertile Crescent
- 8. a Sumerian city; first city in the world
- 11. type of writing used by the Sumerians
- 12. a type of fertile soil found in Mesopotamia
- 15. supplying water to soil to help grow crops
- 16. Sumerian farmers raised ________, goats, and cattle
- 17. another name for farming
- 18. name that means land between two rivers
- 19. Sumerians used different types of this to improve farming
- 22. the belief in multiple gods
- 23. Sumerians believed they knew how to communicate with gods
- 25. one of the famous rivers of Mesopotamia