World History Topic 2
Across
- 2. Babylonian king who had laws written down.
- 5. Believing in one god.
- 6. King who built the temple in Jerusalem.
- 10. A black stone discovered by Jean Champollion which allowed scholars to decipher hieroglyphics. It had the same passage written in three different languages.
- 11. A system of writing that used wedge shaped marks.
- 13. A large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to the city god.
- 14. The holy text of the Israelites.
- 16. The leader of the Israelites during the exodus.
- 18. The Akkadian ruler of the First Empire
- 19. The pharaoh who pushed Egypt’s boundaries to their greatest extent.
- 21. a system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds.
Down
- 1. The best-known pharaoh who ruled for sixty-six years.
- 3. The spreading of Jews beyond their homeland.
- 4. To arrange or set down in writing.
- 5. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth.
- 7. The site of the world’s first civilization, located in southeastern Mesopotamia.
- 8. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt.
- 9. The first female Pharaoh.
- 12. plant used to make a paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt.
- 15. A region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose.
- 17. The Egyptian god of the dead and the Nile.
- 20. The wife of Osiris and the goddess of women.