Across
- 2. a tool used by potters to form pottery
- 6. a huge stone monument
- 7. Sumerians built a math system based on this number
- 8. the type of economy used in early communities
- 9. a person who moved their settlement to follow their source of food
- 12. Hammurabi's code makes no reference to punishment from these
- 13. a person who writes for their job
- 15. world's first system of writing
- 16. division of society by rank or class
- 18. one of the rivers in Mesopotamia
- 19. a pyramid-shaped temple tower
- 20. a tool pulled by oxen to break up soil
- 21. a person who leads religious ceremonies
- 26. a set of laws given by a leader or government
- 27. an area that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea with rich soil
- 28. a famous Neolithic community
- 29. more food than needed; the thing that is necessary for civilization to begin
Down
- 1. land with different territories and people under a single ruler
- 2. believing in many gods
- 3. the theme of geography that describes the Mesopotamian farmers using irrigation
- 4. the modern day country where Mesopotamia was located
- 5. a long poem that usually tells a story about a hero
- 10. a king who became a mythological hero
- 11. the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
- 14. another term for farming crops and raising animals
- 16. a mixture of rich soil from the bottom of rivers that helped crops grow
- 17. this is what happens when people specialize in different jobs
- 22. the king known for his code of law
- 23. systems that move water from one place to another
- 24. the idea that no one is exempt from following the laws
- 25. a sharp tool that was used to write in cuneiform
- 30. a king who created the first empire