Ancient River Valley Civilizations

2. a wind that brings rain in the summers to India
4. religious texts that provided the critical source for Hinduism
8. known for his elephant army defeating the Kingdom of Kalinga by the Bay of Bengal
9. the lifeblood river of ancient Egypt
11. the oldest language in the world
13. the river that flowed into the Arabian Sea
14. the oldest historical document was a makeup palette belonging to this Egyptian king.
15. the Egyptian measure from elbow to fingertips
17. the desert that was a protective barrier to Egyptian civilization
19. ruler of egypt
22. the way the ancient river valley civilizations channeled the river to the fields to water the crops
23. located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
24. the religious temple in a Mesopotamian city-state
25. the tallest mountain in the world above sea level
26. the pass that provides a narrow roadway to get through the Hindu Kush mountains

1. the mountain range that separates India and China
3. the stone that made it possible to translate hieroglyphics
5. the wedgeshaped writing of the Mesopotamians
6. the king known for writing the first established law code
7. the Egyptians used this plant to make paper
10. the economy Mesopotamia, Egypt and Indus Valley was based on this
12. the basic ingredient necessary for a civilization to develop
15. the Indus Valley civilization domesticated this plant first to weave into cloth
16. the annual event of the rivers of all three civilizations, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Indus Valley
18. Egypt is located on this continent
20. belief in many gods
21. first invented by the people in the Indus Valley civilization