Mesopotamia

2. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
5. a legendary Sumerian king and hero of a legend
8. each worker has a unique job (teacher, doctor, farmer, ...) also known as division of labor
9. the division of society by rank or class
13. A society that lived north of Sumer in around 2300 BCE
14. belief in or worship of more than one god
15. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
16. a way of supplying water to an area of land
17. ancient Sumerian city, with a powerful government near what is now Baghdad near the Euphrates
20. writer
21. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks brought in by river floods, that makes land ideal for farming
22. people who performed or led religious ceremonies
24. a central city and all the countryside around it

1. picture symbols
3. 282 laws that dealt with everyday life in Babylon
4. a large arc of rich farmland from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranian Sea
6. an organized society within a specific area.
7. the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied (after Christmas sale)
10. a pyramid-shaped temple that rose high above each city
11. the world's first writing system, using styluses and clay tablets
12. human-made waterways used for irrigation
18. the science of building
19. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the site of the world's first civilization.
23. the division of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia in around 3000 BCE