A crafts person (skilled workers)

An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government (city and surrounding territory)

A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government and social structure

A characteristic of a civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people (way of life)

Writing that uses wedge shaped characters

A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government

A long poem that tells the story of a hero's deeds

A means of supplying land with water

A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

The belief in one god

The belief in many gods

Mesopotamian governmental and religious leader

To improve a system or organization (a change that leads to improvement)

The period of time someone rules, usually royalty (period of power)

A system of beliefs and practices

A person who writes

A military blockade and an attack on a city to force it to surrender

fine particles of rock ( settling in a river bed)

A group in a society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property or rights

Development of occupations

The use of science to solve problems

The business of buying and selling or exchanging items

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior

An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top