Across
- 2. famous early example of a walled city
- 4. People famous as shipbuilders; created an alphabet with symbols to represent sounds
- 6. lines that run between the north and south poles
- 7. a term that refers to the "old stone age"
- 8. the study of human societies and culture
- 10. lines that run parallel to the equator
- 13. seasonal prevailing wind in south and southeast Asia
- 14. river famous for regular flooding and cataracts
- 18. type of human society based on farming
- 19. one of the first civilizations in Mesopotamia
- 21. code of law from ancient Babylon, named after this king
- 22. when Moses led ancient Hebrew population out of Egypt
Down
- 1. means "between two rivers"
- 3. belief in many gods
- 5. system of writing using symbols invented by the Sumerians
- 8. the major faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam trace their origins back to this prophet
- 9. belief in one god
- 11. a group of places that have physical features or human characteristics in common
- 12. type of human society that has no permanent residence
- 15. type of material similar to paper made out of reeds, used in ancient Egypt
- 16. pyramid-shaped stepped tower associated with ancient Mesopotamia
- 17. these types of bones were used to predict the future
- 20. a political unit in which a number of peoples/nations are controlled by a single ruler