Vocab Crossword

4. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
8. the Semitic people which inhabited ancient Phoenicia and its colonies
10. a king of ancient Mesopotamia, known for putting the laws of his country into a formal code
11. the gradual transformation of the traditional agricultural system that began in Britain in the 18th century
13. a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq
15. an inhabitant of ancient Assyria or the language of ancient Assyria, a dialect of Akkadian.
16. a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East
17. extreme scarcity of food
19. barriers used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake, or even the ocean
21. relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god
22. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

1. the most efficient military force in the ancient world up until their fall of the empire in 612 BCE
2. When hunter-gatherers engage in practices which assist the growth of wild plants
3. a crescent-shaped region in the Middle Easta
5. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq
6. relating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the early, non-Semitic element it contributed to Babylonian civilization
7. a contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police
9. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
10. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food
12. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels
14. primitive, original, or earliest
18. relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land
20. the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm