Across
- 2. a temple, which literally means “mountain of god.”
- 5. part of the land making up the Fertile Crescent, meaning "land between the rivers" in Greek.
- 6. a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
- 7. a belief in many gods.
- 8. one of the animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chinese priests to communicate with the gods.
- 9. a series of rulers from the same family.
- 12. a government controlled by religious leaders.
Down
- 1. in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority
- 3. a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.
- 4. an arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
- 9. a marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
- 10. "gift of the ______"
- 11. a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
- 13. a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by Sumerians around 3000 BC.