Unit 1--River Valley Civilizations

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Across
  1. 2. In order to create civilization, people had to learn to ___, because this allowed them to stay in one place.
  2. 7. reedy plant which Egyptians used to make a paper-like substance
  3. 8. name of time period during which early people roamed around in search of food and did not farm
  4. 9. term for objects left behind by historical people; archaeologists dig these up to learn about older civilizations
  5. 10. term for a sort of coffin used by Egyptians with a person’s likeness carved onto the lid
  6. 12. name of the first written code of law, which was created in Babylon
  7. 18. term for the feature of civilization which came about because people no longer created everything they needed; instead, people began to have separate jobs & then to trade in order to meet all of their needs
  8. 20. name of the geographical area between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
  9. 23. “Egypt is the gift of the ___.”
  10. 24. Egyptian pictographic alphabet
  11. 25. In a ___ social structure, some classes of people have more privileges than other, and the higher classes have fewer members.
Down
  1. 1. term for a society in which fathers and husbands are in control
  2. 3. political arrangement of Mesopotamia, in which each city governed itself
  3. 4. Modern historians are able to read hieroglyphics due to the discovery of the ___ ___.
  4. 5. term for a religion in which there is one god and behavior/morals are considered important
  5. 6. term for the spread of ideas from one place to another
  6. 8. works feature of civilization; term for expensive projects organized by governments which benefit the community as a whole
  7. 11. pictographic alphabet used by various people in Mesopotamia
  8. 13. feature of civilization that was usually polytheistic in ancient civilizations
  9. 14. term for a type of economy that relies on herding (usually of sheep or goats)
  10. 15. term for people who go from place to place; do not have a permanent home
  11. 16. term for the scattering or spreading out of Hebrew peoples after Israel & Judea were conquered by invaders
  12. 17. of the dead name of the Egyptian manual for succeeding in the afterlife
  13. 19. term for an Egyptian monarch who was also considered to be a god
  14. 21. name of the Hebrew code of law, given to Moses on Mt. Sinai by God, according to Hebrew teachings
  15. 22. Hebrew holy book, which roughly corresponds to the Christian Old Testament