SS Final Vocab
Across
- 2. a flat disk thrown in the Olympics
- 7. a serious or sad story
- 10. egyptian king
- 12. to murder for political reasons
- 13. an early form of paper
- 16. the written and other recorded events of people
- 17. production of crops and raising animals
- 20. rich, fertile soil left from the flooding of a river.
- 23. a public market and meeting place
- 24. groups of travelers
- 26. belief in many gods
- 27. worker who is skilled in something
- 28. belief in one God
- 32. government in which citizens govern themselves
- 35. a long poem
- 36. professional writer
- 38. life after death
- 40. to force someone to live in another country
- 41. a family of rulers
- 42. more of a thing than is needed; extra/ leftover
Down
- 1. city’s market
- 3. The first metal used during the New Stone Age
- 4. stories about gods
- 5. a temple for the god of the city
- 6. a city, which acted like a state
- 8. to tame animals from the wild
- 9. wooden instrument used for writing in clay
- 10. before history
- 11. person who has no settled home
- 14. a high, rocky hill with a city on top of it
- 15. Supplying land with water through a system of canals
- 18. huge building with 4 sloping outside walls shaped like triangles
- 19. symbols invented by the Phoenicians
- 21. A hard metal that is a mixture of copper and tin
- 22. Organized List of laws or rules
- 25. a form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines
- 28. a dead body preserved
- 29. a person who trades food and goods
- 30. land surrounded by water on 3 sides
- 31. a time when there is so little food that people starve
- 33. An area of many territories and people that are controlled by one
- 34. someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
- 37. the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams of water.
- 39. land or soil that has substances plants need in order to grow