Civilizations

2. BRICKS – Material used by Egyptians to build their houses after drying them in the sun.
4. – The individual credited with devising the first 365-day calendar.
5. – The name of the massive volcanic eruption that impacted the region.
7. – The Minoans built the first major one in the world, primarily for trade.
8. CLOCK – An Egyptian invention used to calculate the time of day.
9. – The practice of growing more than one crop at a time, developed by Minoans.
10. – A metal Minoans traded and alloyed with copper to make bronze.
12. PIPES – Used by the Minoan upper class for water and sewer facilities.
15. – Reeds used by Egyptians to create a surface for writing.
16. – The brightest star in the horizon used by Egyptians to predict Nile flooding.
17. – Egyptians may have been the first to learn how to blow this material using hot furnaces.
19. – Extensive systems of this supported Egyptian agriculture.
20. – The capital of Crete and site of grand Bronze Age palaces.

1. – The lifestyle of early Egyptian settlers before they became farmers.
3. – The type of people the Minoans were, primarily engaged in overseas trade.
6. – The pictorial symbols used in Ancient Egyptian writing.
11. – The river that "gave life" to Egyptian civilization.
13. – The process of preserving the dead through the art and science of embalming.
14. – The King who ruled the Aegean Bronze Age civilization on Crete.
18. – Monumental evidence of Egyptian expertise in geometry and engineering.