Ancient Civilzation

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  1. 2. a country in eastern Asia that is the third largest and most populous in the world
  2. 5. is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly
  3. 6. a ruler in ancient Egypt
  4. 8. a country in northeastern Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea
  5. 9. an ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Its alluvial plains were the site of the civilizations of Akkad, Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria
  6. 10. a river in southern Asia that flows from Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea
Down
  1. 1. To make into a mummy by embalming and drying
  2. 3. enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing
  3. 4. a crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf.
  4. 7. the sixth king of the first dynasty of Babylonia, reigned 1792–1750 bc. He extended the Babylonian empire and instituted one of the earliest known collections of laws