Rise of Empires Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Persian king that conquered many nations, including Babylon.
  2. 6. Greatest Phoenician city located in North Africa.
  3. 8. Persian governor in charge of a persian province.
  4. 9. Assyria's capital city and the biggest city of its day. Also had one of the biggest ancient libraries.
  5. 10. Trading Empire that founded several independent city-states throughout the Mediterranean.
  6. 11. A Persian prophet that founded a new mono-theistic religion that worshipped Ahura Mazda.
  7. 12. The movement of groups of people from one region to another.
Down
  1. 1. Babylonian king that greatly improved Babylon, built the hanging gardens and destroyed Jerusalem.
  2. 2. Early Empire that came from Anatolia, formed a treaty with Egyptian empire.
  3. 3. Assyrian king that bragged about destroying several cities and villages including Babylon.
  4. 5. Persian king that conquered eastern lands as far as India, but failed at conquering the Greeks.
  5. 7. A large peninsula that juts out into the Black and Mediterranean seas.
  6. 8. Dry grasslands that stretched North of the Caucasus mountains.