Surprise! A Crossword.

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Across
  1. 2. A preserved body
  2. 5. A curving strip of land that was good for farming in Mesopotamia.
  3. 8. A kind of salt spread on the body during mummification to pull out moisture.
  4. 9. A triangle-shaped area of islands and marshes at the mouth of a river.
Down
  1. 1. Places where the Egyptians got rocks to build the pyramids.
  2. 3. A village or town surrounded by agriculture with it's own government.
  3. 4. A poor person who farms on someone else's land, however does not own it.
  4. 6. Fair treatment under the law.
  5. 7. The first writing system invented by the Sumerians.