Across
- 5. land between the Tigris & Euphrates River; in the Fertile Crescent
- 6. sacred Hebrew (Jewish) text; (Judaism)
- 8. father of the Hebrews/Jews; founder of Judaism
- 10. spreading out of a people from their traditional homeland
- 12. a triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- 14. simple drawings that look like the objects they represent
- 16. led the Hebrews out of Egypt; Ten Commandments
- 17. system of ranking groups
- 18. ruling family
- 19. exchange one set of goods/services for another
- 20. wedge-shaped writing, first form of writing from Sumer
Down
- 1. belief in many gods
- 2. stepped temple in Sumer
- 3. king of Egypt
- 4. created first written set of laws (Hammurabi’s Code) from Babylon
- 7. site of the world’s first civilization
- 9. belief in one god
- 11. region in the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
- 13. writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound
- 15. picture symbols the Egyptians used to keep records