Chapters 1-5

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Across
  1. 2. Crescent A curved region with rich soil where early farming began
  2. 4. One of the earliest systems of writing
  3. 6. An independent city with its own government and laws
  4. 9. The ruler of ancient Egypt
  5. 10. A natural event that could both help and harm early farmers
  6. 14. One of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia
  7. 15. The people who built some of the world’s first cities
  8. 16. An ancient civilization that grew along a major river
  9. 17. A stepped temple tower built by the Sumerians
Down
  1. 1. Picture symbols used in Egyptian writing
  2. 3. Large stone tombs built for Egyptian kings
  3. 5. The river that made farming possible in Egypt
  4. 7. The second major river that helped early cities grow
  5. 8. The material used to make early writing tablets
  6. 11. A system for bringing water to crops
  7. 12. The land between two rivers where the first civilizations formed
  8. 13. Preserved bodies prepared for the afterlife