The Fertile Crescent

4. State containing several countries or territories
7. Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound.
8. Set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire.
10. Good or service within a country that is produced in another country.
12. Idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
13. To supply water
15. Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders.
16. Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
18. Worship of many gods or deities.
19. Grand stone pillar.
20. Brick pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian
21. Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
23. Wide,flat plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.

1. Payment or gift to a stronger power.
2. Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
3. Crescent A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq) to Persian Gulf.
5. A permanent army of professional soldiers.
6. Art of steering a ship from place to place.
9. Spread of cultural trait from one culture to another.
11. Money that is used as a medium of exchange,usually bills or coins.
12. Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory.
14. Idea that all members of a society even the rich and powerful must obey the law.
17. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand ideas or things.
22. Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state.