Early Migrations and Age of Empires

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Across
  1. 5. Governor who ruled locally
  2. 7. Persian king who created a huge empire
  3. 8. Assyrian king and empire builder
  4. 12. Large peninsula in modern-day Turkey
  5. 17. First five books of the Hebrew Bible
  6. 18. Ancient home of the Israelites
  7. 20. Minoan capital city
  8. 22. Invaders that ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 BCE
  9. 23. Chinese idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is key to social order
  10. 24. Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
  11. 26. Good or bad deeds
  12. 28. Dynasty- Dynasty that unified China
  13. 30. Gautama- Founder of Buddhism
  14. 31. Philosophy of Laozi that puts people in touch with the forces of nature
  15. 33. Group of Indo-Europeans
  16. 35. Group of powerful seafaring people
  17. 36. People who helped destroy the Assyrian empire
  18. 38. Mutual promise between God and the Jewish people
Down
  1. 1. Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean
  2. 2. Israelite kingdom in Canaan
  3. 3. China’s most influential scholar
  4. 4. Group of Indo-European peoples who occupied Anatolia
  5. 6. Government in which the ruler has unlimited power
  6. 9. Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain
  7. 10. Road- Road that helped unify the Persian Empire
  8. 11. Group of Asian peoples who migrated to many different places.
  9. 13. New Kingdom ruler who encouraged trade
  10. 14. According to the Torah, the man who led the Israelites out of slavery.
  11. 15. Persian king who put satraps in place and built the Royal Road
  12. 16. Religion that teacher that every living creature has a soul and no living creature can be harmed
  13. 19. Region of Africa bordering Egypt.
  14. 21. Payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power.
  15. 25. Migrations and Age of Empires
  16. 27. Powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia
  17. 29. “Father”, or the first, of the Jewish people
  18. 32. Dry grasslands
  19. 34. Huangdi- First emperor of China; leader of the Qin Dynasty
  20. 37. Minos- King of Knossos