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