Across
- 2. system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority
- 4. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 5. branch of law that deals with private rights and matters
- 9. economic system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for another
- 11. plant used to make a paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt
- 12. stone monument that includes the same passage carved in hieroglyphics, demotic script, and Greek and that was used to decipher the meanings of many hieroglyphs
- 16. the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
- 17. ruling family
- 18. Persian prophet, lived around 600 B.C. taught that the earth is a battleground where a great struggle if fought between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil, founder of Zoroasterianism
- 19. waterfall
Down
- 1. branch of law that deals with offenses against others
- 3. territory settled and ruled by people from another land
- 4. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
- 6. ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city's chief god or goddess
- 7. region of the MIddle East in which civilization first arose
- 8. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts or sounds
- 10. economic system in which goods or services are paid for through the exchange of a token of an agreed a value
- 13. system of ranking groups
- 14. triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- 15. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt