Across
- 2. A person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper
- 6. A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
- 7. A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
- 10. A person who studies planets and stars
- 11. A payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender
- 13. A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler
- 15. A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay
- 16. An amount that is left over after a need has been met
Down
- 1. Relating to soldiers, arms, or war
- 3. A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
- 4. A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
- 5. Fine particles of fertile soil
- 8. A set of official laws
- 9. A belief in more than one god
- 12. A geographic area
- 14. A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire
- 15. A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels