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Across
  1. 3. the ruler of ancient Egypt
  2. 5. a high official
  3. 8. a rule of conduct or action laid down and enforced by the government
  4. 9. belonging to a high class that has special social or political status
  5. 12. the land between two rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
  6. 15. a broad flat-bottomed boat
  7. 16. a massive structure that served as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh and high officials
  8. 18. a large Asian freshwater fish often raised for food
  9. 19. major river valley in Asia which flows through what is today Pakistan
  10. 20. the process of preserving the bodies of the dead
  11. 24. the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced
  12. 26. a plant that is made into strips and pressed into material on which one can write
  13. 27. an unwritten agreement within a community under which the members most suited perform that occupation
  14. 29. a carved tablet representing a scroll with rolled up ends
  15. 31. a bank built along a river to prevent flooding
  16. 34. a four-sided pillar that becomes narrower toward the top and ends in a pyramid
Down
  1. 1. a class of scholars and copiers who were central to the functioning of government, the army and the priesthood
  2. 2. a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  3. 3. members of a social class of low rank who worked in the fields
  4. 4. a building for worship
  5. 6. belief in many gods
  6. 7. term ancient Egyptians used as the official name of their land
  7. 10. writing made up of pictorial symbols
  8. 11. supplying with water by artificial means
  9. 13. freshwater fish that is yellowish with dark green vertical stripes and is a popular food
  10. 14. a collection of laws arranged in some orderly way
  11. 17. artificial waterway for boats or for draining or irrigating land
  12. 21. covering or filling with water
  13. 22. a barbed spear used especially in hunting large fish
  14. 23. an ancient Egyptian image having the body of a lion and the head of a man, ram, or hawk
  15. 25. the social and cultural differences between males or females
  16. 28. freshwater fish inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers and lakes
  17. 30. a country in northeastern Africa
  18. 32. hand-operated device for lifting water
  19. 33. shows the levels of each social class in terms of importance