Across
- 2. crescent a large arc of rich or fertile farmland that was once a desert
- 4. picture symbols
- 6. the world’s first system of writing, written on clay tablets with a tool called a stylus
- 9. means countryside
- 10. Uruk’s Kings a Sumerian figure in Sumerian literature
- 12. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 13. are people who perform religious ceremonies
- 14. worship of many gods
Down
- 1. a city that governs itself
- 3. human-made waterway basins of water to a network of ditches
- 5. the division of society by rank or class
- 6. a group of merchants traveling together
- 7. means city
- 8. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- 11. a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- 15. writer