Middle East

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization (7)
  2. 6. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians (8)
  3. 7. The act of creating written works (7)
  4. 12. A society in an advanced state of social development (12)
  5. 14. An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia (9)
  6. 15. The area around the ___ Mediterranean (10)
  7. 16. A very old person (7)

Down

  1. 1. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (4)
  2. 2. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates (11)
  3. 3. System of faith and worship (8)
  4. 5. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system (9)
  5. 8. Supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc (10)
  6. 9. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories (9)
  7. 10. People who make and enforce a country's laws (10)
  8. 11. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural) (6)
  9. 13. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq (5)