The Ancient World

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
Across
  1. 2. known for military power, women were most free
  2. 8. Ancient Egyptian writing
  3. 9. tomb structures in Egypt
  4. 12. was an Australopithecus that was an ancestor of apes and humans
  5. 13. Earliest writing, found in Sumer.
  6. 17. early laws
  7. 19. pyramid temples in Ancient Mesopotamia.
  8. 21. domestication of plants and animals
  9. 22. hill in Athens with Parthenon atop it
  10. 24. kings and queens of Egypt considered part god
  11. 26. a word for humans moving out of Africa around 60,000 years ago
  12. 27. location of our field trip about Greco-Roman culture
  13. 28. what most of these ancient cultures had to do their work
  14. 30. home to democracy
Down
  1. 1. a period of 200 years during which the Hebrews were in captivity
  2. 3. early flood story
  3. 4. first emperor or dictator of Mesopotamia
  4. 5. river along which grew up Ancient Egypt
  5. 6. one of two rivers that created the Fertile Crescent
  6. 7. the Sumerian city that Abraham came from
  7. 10. mythical dweller in labyrinth
  8. 11. way people lived before Neolithic Revolution
  9. 14. the process of preserving bodies in Ancient Egypt
  10. 15. first walled city 7000 BCE
  11. 16. violent culture that killed 10 tribes of Israel and invented aquaducts
  12. 18. most powerful god in Greek mythology
  13. 20. extra food resulting from domesticating plants and animals
  14. 22. one of the 3 most famous Greek philosophers
  15. 23. games held to create a pan-Hellenistic culture
  16. 25. one of Homer's epic poems about returning from Trojan War
  17. 29. island in Greece that had Minoan culture with a palace of 1400 rooms