Across
- 4. a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumerian city-states
- 7. an especially fine and fertile soil
- 8. a substance from which other things are made
- 10. the things, both cultural and technological, left to us from past cultures
- 12. a category of people based on wealth or status in a society
- 13. a tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection
- 15. the earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians
- 16. heritage the legacy of a group’s or society’s attributes passed down from generation to generation
- 18. the supply of water to fields using human-made systems
- 19. a group of people that settles in a new land but keeps ties to its native country
- 20. the story of human life on Earth over the centuries
- 21. a belief in many gods
Down
- 1. a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands and settlements; a city that controls the surrounding villages and towns
- 2. a group of different lands and people governed by one ruler
- 3. an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger
- 5. an administrative district of a larger empire or country
- 6. a partnership
- 8. a formal series of acts always performed in the same way; a religious ceremony
- 9. a technique in which figures are raised slightly above a flat base
- 11. a person skilled at making things by hand
- 14. a governor of a province in the Persian Empire
- 17. the sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others