Ancient and Classical Vocabulary

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