Across
- 3. Payment or gift to a stronger power
- 5. A city-state is an independent state consisting of a _____ and its surrounding territory.
- 7. State containing several countries or territories
- 10. A cultural _____ is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture
- 12. Grand stone pillar, such as the one upon which Hammurabi's Code is inscribed in cuneiform
- 15. Brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple
- 17. Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's borders
- 20. The _____ of law is the idea that all members of a society--even the rich and powerful--must obey the law.
- 22. Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal
- 26. Good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
- 27. Complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills
- 29. Fine, fertile soil
- 30. Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
Down
- 1. Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
- 2. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
- 4. Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
- 6. The _____ Crescent is the region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf.
- 8. Supply of something that can be used as needed
- 9. Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
- 11. Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
- 13. System that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services
- 14. Soldiers who fight while riding horses
- 16. A(n) _____ army is a permanent army of professional soldiers.
- 18. Worship of many gods or deities
- 19. Art of steering a ship from place to place
- 21. People's beliefs and practices about the existence, nature, and worship of a god or gods
- 23. A social _____ is a group of people living in similar economic conditions.
- 24. Hammurabi's _____ is a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire.
- 25. Cultural _____ is the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
- 28. To supply water to
