Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

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Across
  1. 3. one of the rivers that surround the Mesopotamian territory.
  2. 6. Officials who could read, write and count.
  3. 7. The other river that surround the Mesopotamian territory.
  4. 10. A preserved body of an important person who died.
  5. 11. An ancient Sumerian temple dedicated to different gods and goddesses.
  6. 12. One of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
  7. 13. State formed by a city and the surrounding territory.
  8. 15. One of the first river civilisations.
  9. 17. People who had no rights, and worked for the state, the church and wealthy people.
Down
  1. 1. People responsible for religious rituals.
  2. 2. People who are trained and equipped to fight in battles or wars.
  3. 4. A group of privileged civil servants who served pharaohs to organise their territory. They also governed provinces.
  4. 5. One of the earliest systems of writing in human history, and it was developed in ancient Sumer (part of Mesopotamia, which is in modern-day Iraq) around 3400 BCE.
  5. 8. Early civilisations that developed near large rivers.
  6. 9. A tomb of the pharaohs.
  7. 14. The very first people who lived a long, long time ago in a place called Mesopotamia, which is now part of Iraq.
  8. 16. A low area of land that is often located between two mountains or hills.