Chapter 2- Egypt & Mesopotamia

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Across
  1. 1. / The worlds first civilization developed in southeastern Mesopotamia in a region called...
  2. 4. / the preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth
  3. 5. / arrange and set down in writing
  4. 7. / men held the greatest legal and moral authority.
  5. 10. / a triangular area a marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
  6. 12. / a writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound
Down
  1. 1. / the ruler of Akkad
  2. 2. / chief minister
  3. 3. / the strong and wise second king of Israel
  4. 4. / believing that there is only one God
  5. 5. / a territory settled and ruled by people from another land
  6. 6. / system of ranking groups
  7. 8. / king of Babylon
  8. 9. the rivers" / Mesopotamia
  9. 11. / ruling family, to another, the land generally remained united