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  1. 3. Which religious text is sacred to Judaism?
  2. 7. Christ What does B.C. stand for?
  3. 10. People who move from place to place to survive.
  4. 12. Disaster A natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
  5. 13. Age When people started using METAL tools.
  6. 15. Era New Stone Age (when new developments allowed people to farm, live in larger settlements, trade, etc.)
  7. 17. Diffusion The spread of culture, including aspects such as clothing and food, from one group to another, typically as a result of making contact.
  8. 22. Leader in Ancient Egypt
  9. 24. Ancient Egyptian writing.
  10. 27. Which holy text is associated with Christianity?
  11. 30. What is the holy book of Hinduism?
  12. 31. A person trained in Jewish law, ritual, and traditions and ordained for leadership of a Jewish congregation.
  13. 32. State A city that is like a small independent country due to having its own laws and government.
  14. 33. Belief in one God
  15. 35. Stone An artifact that was written on in both Greek and Hieroglyphics. Since we could read Greek we could use this stone to crack the code of Hieroglyphics.
  16. 37. A system of pipes and channels used to carry water to cities.
  17. 38. A dictatorship with one-man rule that evolved from the Roman Republic.
  18. 39. Crescent Half moon shaped area of land located where small villages began to form.
  19. 42. Ancient form of writing found in Mesopotamia.
  20. 44. Supreme council of the Ancient Roman empire.
  21. 46. The first civilization that was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq.
  22. 47. The name that was formerly given to people who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.
  23. 48. Extreme shortage of food.
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  1. 1. East-west lines parallel to the equator used to measure distance in degrees north or south of the equator
  2. 2. Able to read and write
  3. 4. A union between people, groups, countries.
  4. 5. An economic principle that describes a consumer's desire and willingness to pay a price for a specific good or service.
  5. 6. A religion that started with Abraham and the Hebrew people
  6. 8. River Valley Civilization An ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile floodplain on the Indus River and its vicinity.
  7. 9. The process by which water is diverted from streams and other bodies of water, in order to water crops
  8. 11. Ancient city-state of Greece known for its fierce military.
  9. 14. A form of government in which power resided in elected individuals representing the citizen body, and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law.
  10. 15. A member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place.
  11. 16. A river of about four thousand miles, it is the longest river of China and of Asia.
  12. 18. Large temple in Ancient Mesopotamia.
  13. 19. Farming (The growing of food on a regular basis)
  14. 20. River The longest river located in Egypt, Africa that flows through the desert, and was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt.
  15. 21. Economic concept that describes the total amount of a specific good or service that is available to consumers.
  16. 22. Belief in many gods
  17. 23. An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, technology, and government has been reached.
  18. 25. Road An ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent.
  19. 26. Power Complete authority to act in an area.
  20. 28. A group of territories or peoples under one ruler.
  21. 29. Domini What does A.D. stand for?
  22. 34. Age Long periods of extreme cold on the Earth.
  23. 36. What is the holy text of Islam?
  24. 40. Distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured in degrees from a certain meridian (line from the North to the South Pole).
  25. 41. One of the first written languages.
  26. 43. The vast empire of Southwest Asia founded by Cyrus II after 546 B.C. and brought to the height of its power and glory by Darius I and his son.
  27. 45. A sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people.