River valley civilizations

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Across
  1. 2. Watering crops.
  2. 3. Belief in many gods.
  3. 4. The Mesopotamian form of writing.
  4. 7. The study of the stars. This was important for creating a calendar and planning for when to grow crops.
  5. 9. The first written set of laws.
  6. 10. Belief in one God.
  7. 11. A group of merchants who traveled on trade routes in a group for safety.
Down
  1. 1. A region shaped like a half-moon in the Middle East with good farmland.
  2. 5. The land between two rivers. Now in modern-day Iraq.
  3. 6. The educated class of people who could read and write. They could work as lawyers, teachers, government advisors, and in other jobs that required writing.
  4. 8. people who don’t live in a permanent place and who move from place to place to hunt and gather food or to water their animals.