History Exam Review

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Across
  1. 2. a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.(ch5)
  2. 4. a fertile deposit of windblown soil.(ch2)
  3. 5. an ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece in 338 B.C.(ch5)
  4. 9. marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.(ch2)
  5. 10. ways in which people apply knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs.(ch1)
  6. 11. the adoption of a conqueror’s culture by a conquered people.(ch7)
  7. 12. a governor of a province in the Persian Empire.(ch4)
  8. 15. in ancient Rome, a group of three leaders sharing control of the government.(ch6)
  9. 16. a human-made object, such as a tool, weapon, or piece of jewelry.(ch1)
  10. 17. a form of a culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.(ch1)
  11. 18. West African storyteller.(ch8)
  12. 19. a decline in the value of money, accompanied by a rise in the prices of goods and services.(ch6)
  13. 23. a form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by citizens who have the right to vote.(ch6)
  14. 24. a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.(ch2)
  15. 25. an ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.(ch4)
  16. 26. series of rulers from a single family.(ch2)
  17. 28. a language of southern India; also, the people who speak that language.(ch7)
Down
  1. 1. a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire.(ch4)
  2. 2. the act of moving from one place to settle in another.(ch8)
  3. 3. a humorous form of drama that often includes slapstick and satire.(ch5)
  4. 6. the taming of animals for human use.(ch1)
  5. 7. a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner.(ch4)
  6. 8. a seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 B.C. began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.(ch3)
  7. 13. the Southwest Asian peninsula now occupied by the Asian part of Turkey— also called Asia Minor.(ch3)
  8. 14. the bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Church.(ch6)
  9. 20. a new form of agriculture in Aksum, in which stepped ridges constructed on mountain slopes help retain water and reduce erosion.(ch8)
  10. 21. an Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests.(ch3)
  11. 22. mounded stone structures built over Buddhist holy relics.(ch7)
  12. 26. Greek-speaking people that, according to tradition, migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization.(ch5)
  13. 27. the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—the most sacred writings in the Jewish tradition.(ch3)