Vocab

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  1. 2. The title of the Egyptian King
  2. 5. A political unit made up of a city and its surrounding land
  3. 7. Priestly carvings – Egyptian form of pictorial writing.
  4. 9. The land between the rivers
  5. 10. A wedge shaped writing that was pressed into clay…Sumerian writing.
  6. 12. A stepped tower or temple, similar to a pyramid
  7. 13. Before Christ
  8. 15. The religion of the Jews, based on the Old Testament and the Talmud and having as its central point a belief in the one God as transcendent creator of all things and the source of all righteousness.
  9. 16. A basin that has a river running through it that can sustain ancient or modern people.
  10. 18. Pertaining to Sumer, its people or their language
  11. 20. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained
  12. 22. An arc of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished.
  13. 25. Anno Domini – “In the year of the Lord.”
  14. 26. The spreading of culture from one society to another.
  15. 27. The first of the great Biblical patriarchs and founder of the ancient Hebrew nation: considered by Muslims an ancestor of the Arab peoples.
Down
  1. 1. Several rulers from one single family
  2. 3. common era
  3. 4. A production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency
  4. 5. A complex culture where large numbers of people share common elements like religion and social structures
  5. 6. A government by divine authority
  6. 8. The ancient Babylonian laws that were set in stone so that all could be protected and understand the law…They are the oldest laws known to man.
  7. 11. Old stone Age
  8. 13. before common era
  9. 14. The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law (10 Commandments) during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
  10. 17. A political unit where large numbers of people and areas of land are controlled by one ruler
  11. 19. New stone Age
  12. 21. The bringing of water to fields through man-made canals.
  13. 23. A society dominated by men.
  14. 24. A huge masonry construction that has a square base and, as in the case of the ancient Egyptian royal tombs, four sloping triangular sides