WHI.3 Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 2. belief in many gods
  2. 5. exchange one set of goods/services for another
  3. 8. spreading out of a people from their traditional homeland
  4. 11. simple drawings that look like the objects they represent
  5. 13. a triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
  6. 16. spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
  7. 17. picture symbols the Egyptians used to keep records
  8. 20. belief in one god
  9. 21. ruling family
Down
  1. 1. wedge-shaped writing; from Sumer
  2. 2. king of Egypt
  3. 3. system of ranking groups
  4. 4. father of the Hebrews/Jews; founder of Judaism
  5. 6. “between the rivers”; land between the Tigris and Euphrates River; in the Fertile Crescent
  6. 7. led the Hebrews out of Egypt; Ten Commandments
  7. 9. site of the world’s first civilization; in Mesopotamia
  8. 10. region in the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
  9. 12. sacred Hebrew (Jewish) text; (Judaism)
  10. 14. writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound
  11. 15. belief that the world was full of spirits/forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams
  12. 18. created first written set of laws (Hammurabi’s Code); from Babylon
  13. 19. a stepped temple in Sumer; center of cultural and religious life