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