Ancient Middle East Test Review

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Across
  1. 2. led Hebrews out of the Egyptian slavery
  2. 6. current country that occupies roughly the same space as the ancient Phoenicians
  3. 7. Kushite who ruled over Egypt, then defeated by Assyrians
  4. 8. father of the Hebrew people
  5. 9. Persian king that conquered Egypt
  6. 10. belief in one god
  7. 11. Kushites moved there and became wealthy because of trade
  8. 12. Babylonian king that twice attacked Jerusalem
  9. 16. Phoenician way of life
  10. 18. Phoenician society wasn't united, but lived in separate _________
  11. 21. Used the Ten Thousand Immortals to take the throne
  12. 22. First Persian king to expand the empire
  13. 24. stepson of Hatshepsut that expanded the empire
  14. 25. defeated Meroe
Down
  1. 1. Persian Empire's Royal Road ran between Sardis in Anatolia to ________ in Persia
  2. 2. lived on Crete and dominated trade in Eastern Mediterranean
  3. 3. Great legacy of Phoenicians
  4. 4. prophet of Persian religion centered around the ideas of good and evil.
  5. 5. Hebrew kingdom in the south
  6. 9. ten hebrew laws
  7. 13. area within what is now called Palestine and Israel
  8. 14. Great Queen of Egypt that encouraged trade
  9. 15. Governors appointed by Darius to oversee the empire
  10. 17. rulers over Egypt between Middle and New Kingdoms
  11. 19. new Hebrew kingdom in the north
  12. 20. 'peace money' paid by a weaker power to a stronger one
  13. 23. first five books of the Hebrew Bible