Ancient and Classical Vocabulary
Across
- 1. a group of soldiers fighting in close formation to protect one another
- 3. a religious offering of a drink or liquid poured out
- 5. a writing system containing 24 phonetic letters developed in Classical Greece
- 8. a logographic writing system of wedge-shaped characters that developed in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 10. a large, rectangular, stepped structure of mud brick, constructed as a temple location in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 11. a large stone structure constructed as a tomb for kings, queens, and other important people in Ancient Egypt
- 13. a pictographic writing system with nearly 1,000 characters that developed in Ancient Egypt
Down
- 2. a symbolic representation of a word that often looks more abstract than representative
- 4. a religious object, often a body part or clothing from a holy person, believed to have supernatural powers
- 6. a pictorial representation of a word that looks like the thing it represents
- 7. a religion with many gods
- 9. a religion with one god
- 12. a hereditary line of rulers passed from one generation to the next