Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 5. writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
  2. 7. an area that stretches in an arc from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
  3. 10. economic system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for another.
  4. 13. writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound.
  5. 14. he tried to change Egypt’s religion from polytheism to monotheism.
  6. 16. Egyptian scribes used this plant to write with.
  7. 17. writing system of Mesopotamia.
  8. 19. a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city-state’s chief god or goddess.
  9. 23. Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first recited in Sumer.
  10. 25. queen who ruled as regent for her husband Thutmose II.
  11. 26. pharaoh who battled to regain Egyptian rule of Syria and Palestine.
  12. 29. known for his building programs and for the wars he waged with the Hittites.
  13. 30. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them.
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  1. 1. system of government through departments and administrators who follow a given set of rules.
  2. 2. is the Egyptian god identified as the god of the afterlife.
  3. 3. economic system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for a token of an agreed value.
  4. 4. a broad, triangular area of land formed at the mouth of a river.
  5. 6. a god king.
  6. 8. he was an Iranian religious leader who was the founder of Zoroastrianism.
  7. 9. system of ranking groups.
  8. 11. was considered the king of the gods.
  9. 12. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
  10. 15. a chief minister who supervised the government.
  11. 18. he was the King of the Babylonian Empire from 605 to 562 BC, he created the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
  12. 20. stone monument that includes the same passage carved in hieroglyphics and Greek, used to decipher the meaning of many hieroglyphics.
  13. 21. site of the world’s first civilization, located in southeastern Mesopotamia.
  14. 22. to figure out the meaning of something.
  15. 24. Sumerian king who ruled from around 2334 to 2279 BC, he created the first empire in Mesopotamia.
  16. 27. King of Babylon who published a remarkable set of laws.
  17. 28. is the Egyptian god worshipped as the ideal mother and wife.