History of the World Ch.3

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Across
  1. 1. A plant used by the Egyptians to make boats, baskets, boxes, mats, sandals, furniture, and paper
  2. 3. Rapids
  3. 5. Ham's son who settled in Egypt
  4. 6. Mysterious statues with the head of a man, ram, or hawk and the body of a lion
  5. 10. The vizier who prepared Egypt for a seven-year famine
  6. 12. The study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
  7. 14. The man God used to deliver Israel from slavery
  8. 18. The pharaoh's chief assistant
  9. 20. Egyptian god-kings
  10. 21. Those who kept written records for the pharaoh and other government officials
  11. 22. May have been the first structure in world history made entirely of stone
  12. 23. Huge tombs built for some pharaohs
  13. 24. The pharaoh when the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent
  14. 25. The pharaoh who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
  15. 26. The first and largest pyramid
Down
  1. 2. The stone used by Jean Francis Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics
  2. 4. The pharaoh who had many giant statues of himself
  3. 5. Early tombs with flat tops and sloping sides
  4. 7. Egyptian writing
  5. 8. A female pharaoh
  6. 9. The scholar who deciphered the Rosetta Stone and unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphics
  7. 11. Families within which the right to be king is passed from one member to the next
  8. 13. The Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies
  9. 15. The Greek historian who wrote descriptions of the wonders of ancient Egypt
  10. 16. The longest river in the world
  11. 17. A gigantic statue carved in limestone which has a lion's body and a human face in the likeness of a pharaoh
  12. 19. A payment from one nation to another