Across
- 4. a military blockade and an attack on a city to force it to surrender
- 6. crescent, a region in southwest Asia; the site of the first civilization
- 7. the way a country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet needs and wants.
- 8. a professional writer
- 11. many territories and people controlled by one government
- 13. a characteristic of a civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a group of people
- 14. a person who makes money by selling goods
Down
- 1. wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign the other is superior
- 2. an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
- 3. the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 5. a city that is also a separate independent state
- 9. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
- 10. structure, the way a civilization is organized
- 12. a symbol that stands for an object