Across
- 2. people who specialized in writing and record keeping
- 3. fine fertile soil
- 5. climate type marked by hot summers and limited rainfall
- 6. highest ranking leader of a group of people
- 7. written rules for people to obey
- 8. concentrated flowing of water.
- 10. political unit made up of a city and it’s surrounding lands
- 12. increase in size or volume.
- 13. advanced form of culture that developed in cities
- 15. pictures or drawings that represent a word or an idea
- 16. land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 17. period of little or no rainfall when it is difficult to grow crops.
- 19. watering dry land by using ditches, pipes, or streams
Down
- 1. fair treatment of all the people, based on the law
- 2. amount produced in excess of what is needed
- 4. temple build atop a series of increasingly smaller platforms
- 7. first known writing system which used wedge-shaped symbols
- 9. region stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
- 11. flat land bordering the banks of a river
- 14. belief in many gods
- 18. group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme ruler