Chapter 2 Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 2. was an Egyptian criminal who lived around the thirteenth century BCE.
  2. 3. The world's oldest literary masterpiece, it centered about the King of Uruk. The book was made up of a series of adventures that focused around the themes of friendship, loyalty, ambition, and fear of death. It is important because it stores a lot of history.
  3. 4. sister cities that were fairly advanced for their time, even including a complex plumbing system. This is important because the created the pumping system and more other things.
  4. 7. Mesopotamia's largest city, with walls more than twenty feet tall and an average population of 50,000. This is important because was the largest city in Mesopotamia.
  5. 8. arose from a series of competing chiefdom. They are important because started with the chiefdoom
  6. 12. strip of land were Caral was the major city out of twenty-five. This is important because it have a lot of history.
  7. 13. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
  8. 14. A process of centralization that took place in the First Civilizations, growing out of the greater complexity or urban life in recognition of the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership. It is important because the countries and states were born like that.
Down
  1. 1. had little indication of political hierarchy or centralized state. It is important because was one of the first civilizations.
  2. 5. often known as "the gift of the Nile" because the region would not have been able to support a significant human population without the Nile's annual inundation, which provided rich silt deposits and made agriculture possible. It is important because they are still people now on days living there.
  3. 6. A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron working industry by 500 BCE. It is important because it is still a city.
  4. 9. A collection of 282 laws which were enforced under Hammurabi's Rule. One of the first examples of written law in the ancient civilizations. It is important because was the first written laws of all the time.
  5. 10. A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. It is important because we still have things like that.
  6. 11. based on irrigation agriculture and stock raising, had a distinctive cultural style. It is important because in that civilizations it rise many invent and ideas.
  7. 15. an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.