Across
- 4. people who performed religious ceremonies.
- 6. the Sumerian system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of words.
- 8. a set of letters that can be combined to form written words.
- 10. a Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon.
- 13. human-made waterways.
- 14. long poems that tell the story of a hero.
- 16. a division of society by rank or class.
- 18. a part or function.
- 21. the science of building.
- 23. a pyramid-shaped temple tower.
- 24. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
- 26. the Akkadian king who defeated Sumer and built the world's first empire.
Down
- 1. more of something than is needed.
- 2. a way of supplying water to an area of land.
- 3. a ruler of a kingdom or an empire.
- 5. writer.
- 7. the worship of many gods.
- 9. a wheeled, horse-drawn battle car.
- 11. an arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks.
- 12. a large arc if rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
- 15. a political unit consisting of city and the surrounding countryside.
- 17. the earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of life.
- 19. picture symbols that represented objects such as trees or animals.
- 20. a mix of rich soil, water and small rocks.
- 22. having to do with the city.
- 25. having to do with the countryside.