Ancient Civilizations

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Across
  1. 2. A special fabric discovered by Lei Zu, wife of Huang Di, who united the villages of Ancient China into one empire
  2. 3. The first people of India built cities near the ________ river
  3. 5. A river in Africa, where Egyptian civilization began
  4. 9. A person without a permanent home
  5. 11. A good Babylonian king who created the first written laws
  6. 13. A word that means “between the rivers” in Greek and describes the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Down
  1. 1. The period in Egyptian history when the first pyramids were built
  2. 4. Statue of a half-man half-lion that guards the pyramids of Giza
  3. 6. The world’s first fairy tale, told by the people of Mesopotamia, was the story of _________
  4. 7. The writing system used by Sumerians to write on clay tablets
  5. 8. A stone with text written in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphs, that French and English scholars used to understand hieroglyphs
  6. 10. The first people of China built cities between the Yangtze River and the ______ River
  7. 12. Name for an ancient Egyptian king