Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 2. , an object made or modified by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.
  2. 4. ,a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
  3. 7. , the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
  4. 8. ,denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets
  5. 9. crescent,a boomerang-shaped region in the Middle East with fertile land between the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates
  6. 10. ,Hammurabi was an Amorite First Dynasty king of the city-state of Babylon, and inherited the power from his father, Sin-Muballit, in c. 1792 BC
Down
  1. 1. belief in or worship of more than one god.
  2. 3. ,the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
  3. 5. ,in ancient Mesopotamia a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel
  4. 6. , a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.