Across
- 2. Open air market
- 4. Area of rich soil surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- 6. When you have more of a material than you need
- 8. A city with its own government and social structure
- 12. Religious Temple
- 14. The period of time when humans began farming and making tools
- 18. Creatures who walk on two feet
- 19. The process of embalming and preserving a dead body to prevent decay
- 23. Started in 3500 BC when artisans mixed together tin and copper
- 24. Kings of Egypt, viewed as gods on Earth
- 27. A society with advanced cities, specialized workers, advanced technology, complex institutions, and record keeping
- 28. A period of rule held by one family, usually passed down father to son
- 29. Channeling water for agriculture
- 30. A united, related group of gods
- 31. The triangle-shaped fan of rivers that splits the Nile up before running into the mediterranean.
- 32. A collection of previously independent peoples united under one central ruling power
Down
- 1. Ranks people’s social power in a society
- 3. Scientists who study early people by excavating and studying traces of early humans
- 5. The exchange of physical materials and ideas between cultures
- 7. A religious system with more than one god
- 9. 4,000 mile long river at the heart of the Egyptian civilization
- 10. The eternal life force Egyptians believed in that carried from life to afterlife
- 11. The land in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, located around the Tigris and Euphrates
- 13. Also known as “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”
- 15. A set of uniform laws from the Babylonian Empire
- 16. The written language Egyptians used where symbols represented both sounds and ideas
- 17. Rich soil good for farming
- 20. The oldest written language, established by the Sumerians
- 21. The way of life shared by a group of people
- 22. A percentage of materials or money given to the government
- 25. Human made items like tools and jewelry
- 26. Egyptian paper made out of dried and woven reeds