World History Topic 2

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