Semester 2 Topics and Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A fixed social class into which a person is born. People inherited their caste from their parents and stayed in it their whole lives.
  2. 3. Discrimination against Jewish people.
  3. 6. The main religion in India
  4. 7. Territories containing several countries and ruled by a single government.
  5. 10. A ruler of a Muslim country.
  6. 12. A Code of laws established by Hammurabi to govern life in the Babylonian Empire.
  7. 13. A political and economic system in which the state owns all property and the government makes all economic decisions
  8. 14. Native peoples of the Pacific Islands like Samoa and Tonga, among others
  9. 16. A successor of Muhammad.
  10. 18. The peninsula that includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Down
  1. 1. These people developed the first phonetic writing system, in which each character corresponded with a spoken word.
  2. 2. A system of writing using wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets to stand for ideas or sounds.
  3. 4. The region that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
  4. 5. A state of blissful peace without desire or suffering
  5. 8. The process by which one group takes on the cultural traits of another
  6. 9. Islam's holy book, or, their version of the Bible or Torah.
  7. 11. The first religion based on the belief in one God, who set down laws about right and wrong.
  8. 15. A series of trade routes that crossed Asia and connected China to the Mediterranean Sea
  9. 16. A slow, painful Roman method of execution, nailing the victim or tying them to a large wooden cross, most notably happened to Jesus Christ.
  10. 17. The rebirth of a soul in a new body