Vocabulary quiz unit 2.1-2

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Across
  1. 2. A government controlled by religious leaders
  2. 4. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
  3. 7. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
  4. 9. pharaoh for 66 years; great warrior; responsible for much development of Egypt
  5. 10. The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
  6. 14. This ruler who united Upper and Lower Egyptian kingdoms
  7. 17. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  8. 18. A ruler of ancient Egypt
  9. 19. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
Down
  1. 1. Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.
  2. 3. A series of rulers from the same family
  3. 5. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
  4. 6. a huge, triangular shaped burial tomb of Egyptian pharaohs
  5. 8. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
  6. 10. A chart of days and months in a year
  7. 11. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
  8. 12. Belief in many gods
  9. 13. He designed a legal code in early Babylon that gave punishment based on crime and social status.
  10. 15. A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake
  11. 16. A long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds