Mesopotamia Crossword

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Across
  1. 7. complex societies
  2. 8. Long poems that tell a hero's story
  3. 9. Record keepers with honored positions
  4. 12. region of the Middle East
  5. 14. Capable of producing abundant crops
  6. 15. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Down
  1. 1. "the land between rivers"
  2. 2. its own government
  3. 3. officials chosen to govern and enforce
  4. 4. ruled in the name of God or a deity
  5. 5. belief in many gods
  6. 6. Method of supplying water to an area
  7. 10. wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets
  8. 11. religious temples built by the Sumerians
  9. 13. Territories under one single ruler