World History Crossword Puzzle

1. a king of ancient Egypt considered a god as well as a political and military leader
6. the process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another
9. a broad marshy triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river
10. the belief in more than one god
11. a plain in the Fertile Crescent that faces the Mediterranean Sea
15. the type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
16. a massive structure with a triangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places fir Old Kingdom pharaohs

2. first ruler of the Babylonian empire who was known for his strict code of laws
3. a process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
4. the king of Upper Egypt who united the both kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt
5. an ancient represent ideas and sounds
7. an arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
8. a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit
12. a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta used by the ancient Egyptians to make a parerlike material for writing on
13. a series of rulers from a single family
14. a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler