Across
- 4. Form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines
- 7. Belief in many gods
- 8. Ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia
- 10. A life after death
- 13. Picture writing which stand for ideas or things; Egyptian writing
- 14. Belief in one god
- 16. Region in Southwest Asia, site of the world’s first civilization
- 18. Child king of Ancient Egypt, buried with many objects.
Down
- 1. First leader of the Israelites, led his family to Canaan and became the founder of a new nation
- 2. Huge area controlled by one government
- 3. A city that has its own government and controls the surrounding land
- 5. A code or organized laws made by Hammurabi. These rules for were for everyone to follow in his empire
- 6. Huge building with four sloping triangle-shaped sides; built as a royal tomb in Egypt
- 8. Israelite leader who led the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan, received the Ten Commandments from God
- 9. Triangular plain at the mouth of a river, sediment is deposited by flowing river
- 11. Early form of paper made from a reed like plant found in a marshy area of the Nile
- 12. Ancient Sumerian temple to the main gods or goddesses of a city
- 15. Rules and duties for those to follow. These were delivered by Moses from God.
- 17. Fine soil found on river bottoms