SOTW 1 Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 2. A person that roams around
  2. 6. Soil capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops
  3. 8. A weed that grew wildly along the banks of the Nile River. A material like paper used by ancient Egyptians to write on
  4. 9. The study of objects dug of the ground
  5. 13. The study of what happened in the past
  6. 14. A native of Egypt
  7. 15. A triangle-shaped area where deposits of sand, clay or silt accumulate
  8. 16. Ancient Egyptian ruler. He was both the head of the state and the religious leader of his people
  9. 17. Hand-operated device for lifting water first used by farmers in ancient times
Down
  1. 1. Means "wedge-shaped". World's oldest system of writing developed by the Sumerian people of Mesopotamia
  2. 3. Means "the land between rivers".Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  3. 4. A shape of a single curve, especially one that is broad in the center and tapers to a point at each end
  4. 5. Means "holy marks". Type of writing that uses symbols or pictures to stand for sounds and words first used by the ancient Egyptians
  5. 7. A traditional, ancient story that is fictional
  6. 10. The study of the Earth's surface and all life on it
  7. 11. A person that studies documents and objects of the past to learn what happened
  8. 12. A person who excavates objects of the ground to learn from them