Across
- 2. - Although hieroglyphics are Egyptian, the word hieroglyphics is Greek. “Hiero” means “holy” and “glyphics” means “marks” or “writings” – so the word means “holy writings“.
- 5. - animals kept or raised for use or pleasure especially: farm animals kept for use and profit.
- 7. - A temple where priests lived located in the center of the city
- 8. - is an independent sovereign city that serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life
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- 1. - The art and science of growing plants and rearing animals
- 3. - The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced
- 4. - the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society
- 6. - one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped,” because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet.
- 9. Code of Hammurabi - The society had 282 laws. made them more organized, so they were easier to find.