Lauren's Mesopotamian Crossword (PD4)

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Across
  1. 5. a way of supplying water to an area of land
  2. 6. A Mesopotamian king, most known for his set of laws
  3. 7. land with different territories and people under a single rule
  4. 8. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  5. 9. human-made waterways
  6. 11. person at the top of the Sumerian society power structure
  7. 14. one river that made Mesopotamia fertile
  8. 15. someone trained in the art of writing
  9. 16. a self-governing city consisting of a city and the countryside around it
Down
  1. 1. one of the world’s first system of writing, created by Sumer
  2. 2. fertile farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  3. 3. picture symbols
  4. 4. Belief in many gods
  5. 10. a large pyramid-shaped temple
  6. 12. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
  7. 13. story of a King who befriends a man from the forest