Social Studies

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Across
  1. 3. Was emperor for more than 50 years
  2. 4. used sharp tools called styluses to write on
  3. 5. The Sumerians developed ______ the world's first system of writing.
  4. 6. The basic political unit of Sumer combined rural and urban areas.
  5. 8. An arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task or job is called a
  6. 9. By 3000 BC, several hundred thousand people had settled in Mesopotamia, in a land they called Sumer.
Down
  1. 1. Large projects, such as constructing buildings and digging irrigation systems, required specialized workers, managers, and organization.
  2. 2. Another society developed along the Tigris and Euphrates north of Sumer.
  3. 3. The wheel,pottery,and the plow
  4. 7. The Sumerians practiced polytheism and worshiped many