Middle Eastern Empires

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  1. 2. Religion teaching dualism (good vs. evil).
  2. 3. First writing system, wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
  3. 5. Monumental tombs for pharaohs.
  4. 7. Gave Assyrians a military advantage over enemies as they had weapons made of ______
  5. 8. Belief in many gods controlling nature and human fate
  6. 11. Empire from 1894–539 BCE that Hammurabi led. Created the Base-60 system.
  7. 12. built the first professional army in history.
  8. 14. Large stepped temples used for religion and politics.
  9. 17. Were the formal writing system of ancient Egypt
  10. 19. Allowed conquered peoples to keep religions and customs under the Persian Empire
  11. 20. Similar to Mesopotamian rivers, the ______ river's flooding cycles helped support agricultural development during the Egyptian Empire.
Down
  1. 1. Region between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers, often called the “cradle of civilization.
  2. 4. The belief in a single god.
  3. 6. Governors who ruled provinces in the Persian system.
  4. 9. Empire accredit with inventing the Wheel.
  5. 10. First written law code (Babylonian)
  6. 13. Provided fertile soil through flooding; core of Mesopotamian civilization.
  7. 15. An extensive network of roads built during the Persian Empire that connected all Satraps.
  8. 16. Provided fertile soil through flooding; core of Mesopotamian civilization.
  9. 18. Specially trained individuals in ancient civilizations who could read and write.