World History Chapter 2: Lessons 1-3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia that brings heavy rains
  2. 5. Egyptian monarchs; the term meant "great house" or "palace"
  3. 6. simplified version of hieroglyphics for everyday use
  4. 12. domesticated animals for food and clothing; followed migratory routes
  5. 13. complex system of Egyptian sacred writings
  6. 14. ancient Indian/Hindu scriptures written in Sanskrit
  7. 15. Indo-speaking nomadic peoples with a strong warrior tradition
  8. 17. traders who lived along the eastern Mediterranean coast; devised a 22-letter alphabet
Down
  1. 1. believing in one God
  2. 3. religious teachers
  3. 4. the first writing system of the Aryans
  4. 7. Indian leaders or princes
  5. 8. a voluntary form of female suicide; widows burn themselves with their dead husbands
  6. 9. an administrative organization that relies on officials and regular procedures
  7. 10. descendants of Abraham; kingdom was divided
  8. 11. a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family
  9. 16. rich civilization that built a palace at Knossos on the island of Crete