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- 3. an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.
- 5. a ruler in ancient Egypt.
- 9. What the Ancient Egypt used.
- 11. the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion. Believed to have been directly revealed to seers among the early Aryans in India, and preserved by oral tradition, the four chief collections are the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda.
- 15. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
- 16. the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
- 17. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
- 18. Code It’s the law that the Babylonian used.
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- 1. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
- 2. (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.Fertile
- 4. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
- 6. the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
- 7. writing consisting of hieroglyphs.
- 8. of Heaven There could only be one god.
- 10. Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.
- 12. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
- 13. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
- 14. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).