Across
- 3. a severe shortage of food
- 5. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
- 9. Market place in Athens
- 12. Rule by people
- 14. friends
- 15. The power in the hands of a few people
- 17. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
- 19. China's golden age dynasty
- 23. A ruling power usually inherited
- 24. a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt
- 26. The biggest Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 27. face to face
- 30. An Egyptian Ruler
- 32. A kingdom southern of Egypt
Down
- 1. a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river, typically where it diverges into several outlets.
- 2. a high official
- 4. The first emperor of China
- 6. A powerful Macedonia King who conquered the Persian Empire
- 7. A ruling power in which a person who seizes power illegally
- 8. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
- 10. a family or group that rules for several generations
- 11. preserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative.
- 13. a country between two rivers
- 16. a person who shoots with a bow an arrow
- 18. a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.
- 20. a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
- 21. A kingdom north of Greece
- 22. the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
- 25. a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.
- 28. A greek City-State located in Peloponnese
- 29. a powerful female leader who co-ruled Kush with her husbands and sons
- 31. A ruler in ancient China