Across
- 3. a traditional story; in some cultures, a legend that explains people’s beliefs
- 6. to focus primarily on one area
- 8. giant brick building in the heart of a Sumerian city. It was the site of the temple to them main god, or goddess of the city
- 9. more than is needed
- 10. the site of the earliest civilization, later known as Babylonia
- 12. groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent
- 13. a professional writer
Down
- 1. the king of Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 B.C.; creator of the Babylonian Empire
- 2. a belief in more than one God
- 4. a city that is also a separate, independent state
- 5. the belief in one god
- 7. supplying land with water through a network of canals
- 11. Crescent a region in Southwest Asia that was the site of the world’s first civilization.