Chapters 1-5

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Across
  1. 6. A system for bringing water to crops
  2. 10. A curved region with rich soil where early farming began
  3. 14. Picture symbols used in Egyptian writing
  4. 15. A natural event that could both help and harm early farmers
  5. 16. One of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia
  6. 17. The ruler of ancient Egypt
Down
  1. 1. Large stone tombs built for Egyptian kings
  2. 2. The second major river that helped early cities grow
  3. 3. The people who built some of the world’s first cities
  4. 4. Preserved bodies prepared for the afterlife
  5. 5. A stepped temple tower built by the Sumerians
  6. 7. An independent city with its own government and laws
  7. 8. One of the earliest systems of writing
  8. 9. The land between two rivers where the first civilizations formed
  9. 11. An ancient civilization that grew along a major river
  10. 12. The material used to make early writing tablets
  11. 13. The river that made farming possible in Egypt