Across
- 2. Means "to rise high;" a large temple that was thought to be a god's home
- 3. Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
- 5. A large sea between two continents, southern Europe and northern Africa
- 9. An area of rich farmland between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
- 12. Groups of merchants or citizens traveling together for safety over long distances
- 14. Babylonian king who established Sumeria
- 15. The civilization that rebelled against and conquered the Assyrian Empire
- 17. The earliest system of writing in which wedge-shaped characters were made by using a sharp reed on wet clay
- 18. Forced payments taken from conquered people
- 19. Land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first civilizations developed
Down
- 1. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops
- 4. Administrative areas into which a country is divided, similar to our present-day concept of states
- 6. Large, militarized empire that emerged about 1000 years after Hammurabi
- 7. The belief in or worship of more than one god
- 8. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- 10. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
- 11. A long poem that tells the story of a hero
- 13. Fine particles of fertile soil
- 16. A person who writes things down; an official record-keeper
- 20. A worker skilled in a craft