Across
- 4. Highest ranked leader of a group of people.
- 5. Temple built atop a series of increasingly smaller platforms.
- 7. Peoples and lands brought together under one supreme ruler.
- 8. Less than 10 inches of rain each year.
- 9. The first civilization around 3300 B.C. in Southern Mesopotamia.
- 12. Belief in many gods and goddesses.
- 15. Amount produced in excess of what is needed.
- 18. Advanced form of culture
- 19. A powerful Amorite king from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
- 20. Sumerians used a sharpened reed called.
Down
- 1. A mixture of copper and tin.
- 2. The fine soil deposited by rivers.
- 3. First known writing system, which used wedge-shaped shapes.
- 6. A period when not enough rain and snow fall.
- 10. Person who rules an empire.
- 11. Flat land bordering the banks of a river.
- 13. The region where these two rivers flow.
- 14. Fair Treatment of people to the people.
- 16. Picture writing.
- 17. People who specialized in writing.