Across
- 2. a form of government that is based on religious beliefs; religious leaders run the government and religious laws become common laws
- 6. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding into certain areas or its river banks
- 7. a city (and its surrounding land) that is like a small independent country due to having its own laws and government.
- 9. and Euphrates Rivers The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia. These rivers would flood and provide silt that made the soil fertile.
- 12. believing in many gods
- 13. Code the first written set of laws; a complete list of rules that the people of Mesopotamia lived by under their ruler, King Hammurabi (ex. "eye for an eye")
- 14. hierarchy (social system) The division of society by rank or class (often associated with jobs)
- 16. burden" a labor tax; all Sumerian men had to devote time to work on public projects for the king
Down
- 1. Crescent Half-moon shaped area of land located where people first settled for farming, in today's area of the Middle East
- 3. technology in Sumer examples: wheel, plow, lunar calendar system, 60 second minute, 60 minute hour, cuneiform
- 4. "land between two rivers" - the first civilization that was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq
- 5. people trained to read and write; professional writers in a time when most people can't read or write
- 8. system of watering crops
- 10. plain the flat, wide area of land along a river, often used for farming because of its fertile soil
- 11. large temple used for worship in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 14. fine soil found on river bottoms that is fertile and great for farming in floodplains
- 15. the first written languages that used a stylus made from a reed and clay tablets