Midterm Review: Vocabulary Part II
Across
- 3. Type of map that shows measurable data such as elevation, average temperature or population density.
- 5. Type of map that shows the natural features of the Earth's surface such as mountains, rivers and deserts.
- 8. The name geographers give to the land bridge that once connected Asia to North America during the last ice age.
- 10. The Mesopotamian afterlife.
- 11. The first Egyptian Pharaoh.
- 14. Type of map that shows things designated by a government such as national boundaries and capital cities.
- 16. Possibly the world's first emperor, a Mesopotamian king who took over Sumerian city-states by force.
- 17. Persian emperor who united his vast empire with roads, laws, and a postal service.
- 18. Means "great house" and was the title given to ancient Egyptian kings.
Down
- 1. The soul according to the ancient Egyptians.
- 2. A ghost or demon of the ancient Mesopotamian religion who would haunt the living.
- 4. King of Babylon who created the world's first written law code.
- 6. Lines that run vertically on a map and measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
- 7. Symbolized by a white feather, the perfect order of the universe according to the ancient Egyptian religion.
- 9. Phonetic writing system created by the ancient Sumerians.
- 12. The Chaldean king who, according to legend, built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
- 13. Built by the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia, a large building used as a temple and fortress.
- 15. Lines that run horizontally on a map and measure the distance north or south of the Equator.