Ap History Crossword

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Across
  1. 7. The “land between rivers”
  2. 8. a people from modern day turkey
  3. 11. a huge complex of towns and villages connected to them
  4. 14. language family that was the precursor to both modern Hebrew and Arabic languages
  5. 15. an early use of writing in china
  6. 18. a tablet with a relatively long script in three languages
  7. 19. a major city the British found while constructing a rail across the indus
  8. 20. invaders from the northwest who spoke indo-european languages
  9. 21. a thick mantle of fertile and soft soil
  10. 23. governed by gods or priests
  11. 24. means “wedged shape”
Down
  1. 1. a wide swath of land from Mesopotamia to Egypt
  2. 2. rituals collected into papyrus texts
  3. 3. large multi story pyramids constructed by bricks and approached by lamps and stairs
  4. 4. a systematic set of rules administered by a government
  5. 5. a non-semitic group who came into lower Mesopotamia about 5000 B.C.E.
  6. 6. a group from farther west that became the longest-lived of all the Chinese dynasties
  7. 9. a distinctive culture with its own cuisine, beliefs, and practices
  8. 10. Originated in Anatolia (modern day turkey) and formed a large empire northwest of the Mesopotamia
  9. 12. coordinated efforts to get work done
  10. 13. worn by individuals to protect them from evil spirits
  11. 15. centers in a large town that governed the country side around it
  12. 16. the first pharaoh
  13. 17. a collection of confucianism
  14. 22. individuals who claimed to have contact with the ancestors