Unit 1 Review: Ancient Civilizations

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Across
  1. 4. king of Babylon created the first formal law code to rule his empire
  2. 7. range which isolated ancient China and India from other ancient civilizations
  3. 13. reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material used for writing on
  4. 14. change in human life caused by the beginning of farming (people’s shift from food gathering to food producing)
Down
  1. 1. in which the ruler is a divine figure (god) or the government is controlled by religious leaders
  2. 2. Spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another
  3. 3. Egyptian writing system using pictures to represent ideas and sounds
  4. 5. Chinese dynasty which developed along the Yellow (Huang He) and Yangtze Rivers
  5. 6. of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 BC
  6. 8. civilization found along the Indus and Ganges Rivers in northern India
  7. 9. civilization centered on the Nile River in northern Africa
  8. 10. of ancient Egypt - considered a god, as well as a political and military leader
  9. 11. civilization found in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  10. 12. An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia (between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers) where the first civilizations began.