The Fertile Crescent & Sumerians Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. people who performed religious ceremonies
  2. 4. the division of society by rank or class
  3. 5. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
  4. 6. countryside
  5. 9. Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
  6. 12. A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks left behind by rivers
  7. 13. A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
  8. 17. leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the first empire
  9. 18. A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
  10. 20. An organized society within a specific area
  11. 21. the science of building
Down
  1. 2. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
  2. 3. Writing using picture symbols
  3. 4. More of something than is needed
  4. 7. city
  5. 8. The worship of and belief in many gods
  6. 10. A way of supplying water to an area of land
  7. 11. a person who writes things down
  8. 14. long poems that tell the stories of heroes
  9. 15. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
  10. 16. human-made waterways
  11. 19. A pyramid shaped temple tower