Ancient Civilizations

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  1. 4. Form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines
  2. 7. Belief in many gods
  3. 8. Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia
  4. 10. A life after death
  5. 13. Picture writing which stand for ideas or things; Egyptian writing
  6. 14. Belief in one god
  7. 16. Region in Southwest Asia, site of the world’s first civilization
  8. 18. Child king of Ancient Egypt, buried with many objects.
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  1. 1. First leader of the Israelites, led his family to Canaan and became the founder of a new nation
  2. 2. Huge area controlled by one government
  3. 3. A city that has its own government and controls the surrounding land
  4. 5. A code or organized laws made by Hammurabi. These rules for were for everyone to follow in his empire
  5. 6. Huge building with four sloping triangle-shaped sides; built as a royal tomb in Egypt
  6. 8. Israelite leader who led the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan, received the Ten Commandments from God
  7. 9. Triangular plain at the mouth of a river, sediment is deposited by flowing river
  8. 11. Early form of paper made from a reed like plant found in a marshy area of the Nile
  9. 12. Ancient Sumerian temple to the main gods or goddesses of a city
  10. 15. Rules and duties for those to follow. These were delivered by Moses from God.
  11. 17. Fine soil found on river bottoms