River Valley Vocabulary

2. Spread of ideas or products from one culture to another
4. In Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority.
6. The emperor that took over Mesopotamia and created the Babylonian Empire
7. A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make paper-like material for writing on.
8. Cities that share the same culture they each developed their own government and rulers.
9. Another name for the Indus valley civilization that arose along the Indus River.
11. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
12. A succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.

1. A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure or a government controlled by a religious leader.
3. An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
4. A wind that shifts in direction at certain times of each year.
5. A king of Ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.
7. A massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for Old Kingdom pharaohs.
10. Belief in more than one god