Chapters 2-5 9WT Review

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Across
  1. 2. groups of merchants or citizens traveling together for safety over long distances
  2. 4. a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
  3. 8. a fan-shaped area of fertile silt near where a river flows into the sea
  4. 9. any change that has an enormous effect on peoples' way of life
  5. 10. a person with certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community
  6. 13. early system of writing in which wedge-shaped characters were made with a sharp reed on wet clay
  7. 15. a member of a group that has no permanent home and wanders in search of food and water
  8. 16. a person who writes things down; an official record-keeper.
  9. 18. a writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols
  10. 20. a half of the earth, as divided by the equator or by the Prime Meridian
  11. 22. a worker skilled in a craft
  12. 23. circles the Earth from Pole to Pole; measures east and west
  13. 25. the process of treating a body to keep it from decaying
  14. 26. forced payments taken from conquered people
  15. 30. a line of rulers from the same family
  16. 31. a long poem that tells the story of a hero.
  17. 32. a complex, highly organized social order
  18. 35. the principle that limited amounts of goods and services are available to meet unlimited wants
  19. 37. the physical and human characteristics of a location
  20. 38. land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the first civilizations developed
  21. 39. chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
Down
  1. 1. to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control
  2. 3. the exact position of a place on the earth's surface.
  3. 5. the earliest period of the Stone Age
  4. 6. a flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region
  5. 7. the science or practice of farming, including the growing of crops and the rearing of animals
  6. 11. a government controlled by religious leaders
  7. 12. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
  8. 14. the position of a place in relation to another place
  9. 17. the period after the Paleolithic Age marked by a shift from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture
  10. 19. a ruler of ancient Egypt
  11. 21. Babylonian king who established Sumeria
  12. 24. a government representative to another country
  13. 27. parallel to the equator; measures north and south
  14. 28. holy places decorated with images of Gods and Goddesses
  15. 29. an area of Earth distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features
  16. 33. a government ruled by a king or queen
  17. 34. great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh
  18. 36. beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
  19. 37. a reed plant growing wild along the Nile River that was used to make paper