Unit #1 Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A state containing several countries or territories
  2. 5. Collection of hundreds of sacred hymns composed by Aryans of ancient India
  3. 8. Supply water to their crops
  4. 9. Complex society that has cities, well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills
  5. 10. King of ancient Egypt
  6. 12. In ancient China, the right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven, the highest force of nature
  7. 13. A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
  8. 15. Fixed society class into which a person is born
  9. 16. The belief in more than one god
Down
  1. 1. People's beliefs and practices about the existence, nature, and worship of god and gods
  2. 2. Wide,flat plain in between the Tigris ad Euphrates rivers in present-day,Iraq
  3. 3. A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire
  4. 6. Temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers
  5. 7. A region in the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
  6. 11. Symbol that stands for word, idea, or sound
  7. 14. A series of rulers from the same family