Across
- 1. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
- 5. territory settled and ruled by people from another land
- 6. ruling family
- 8. 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
- 13. system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority
- 16. triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- 19. in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
- 20. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts or sounds
Down
- 2. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts or sounds
- 3. economic system in which goods or services are paid for through the exchange of a token of an agreed a value
- 4. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 7. regions of the middle east in which civilizations first arose
- 10. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
- 11. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts or sounds
- 12. in ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city's chief god or goddess
- 14. waterfall
- 15. law branch of law that deals with offenses against others
- 17. a 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
- 18. system of ranking groups