unit 1 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Road A 4,000 mile long network of trade routes from China to the Mediterranean Sea on land.
  2. 3. Simple pictures to stand for objects and ideas.
  3. 5. The Egyptians developed a way of preserving the bodies of the dead. The wrapped/preserved body is
  4. 6. A trade good sent out of a country.
  5. 7. Military leaders who had their own armies, chosen by kings to rule the cities/other parts of the kings
  6. 9. Service Working for the government.
  7. 10. Egyptians developed a kind of paper made from the papyrus reed plant that grows along the Nile River
  8. 12. A product brought into a country.
  9. 14. A long poem that tells about the life of a hero.
  10. 15. A seasonal wind.
  11. 17. Rich yellow soil that blows into the Yellow River (Huang He), giving it its name.
  12. 18. Skilled workers, farmers, or merchants.
  13. 20. (Deities)Gods and Goddesses.
  14. 21. Hindus believe that a soul survives death to be reborn in a new body. This rebirth is _______
Down
  1. 1. Pictures or symbols that represent ideas, sounds, or objects.
  2. 4. Rulers who were all from the same ruling family.
  3. 8. The Indian term for ‘ruler’.
  4. 9. A social group into which a person is born.
  5. 11. The Egyptians built these enormous stone tombs that were the burial places of the early pharaohs.
  6. 13. "Great House" Eventually it came to mean the rulers themselves.
  7. 16. The process of making things similar.
  8. 19. A special priest that could tell the future using animal bones.