Across
- 1. a deposit of sediment (as by a river)
- 6. A way of supplying fresh water to an area of farmland.
- 8. An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.
- 9. Stepped pyramid shaped temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses.
- 11. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. This was the First Civilization.
- 12. a location’s distance north or south os equator
- 13. a wind that shifts in direction at a certain time each year
- 15. A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
Down
- 2. a location’s distance east or west of prime meridian
- 3. people that make map
- 4. the study of Earth
- 5. When a ruling family passes the power down from father to son in a long succession
- 7. a system of writing with wedge shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
- 10. When a culture or person believes in more than one god.
- 14. a member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water