Across
- 3. the institution that trained young scribes
- 4. a political unit consisting of a city and all the countryside around it
- 9. the world's first writing system
- 10. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
- 13. a special writing took used to write on a clay tablet
- 14. land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
Down
- 1. a way of supplying water to an area of land
- 2. a large arc of rich, fertile farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
- 5. a pyramid-shaped temple tower
- 6. the world's oldest epic (a long poem about a hero)
- 7. a writer who was hired to keep track of items people traded
- 8. a city area of society
- 11. a ruler of a kingdom or empire
- 12. countryside areas, where farming takes place
- 15. region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and means "between the rivers" in Greek