Across
- 2. Governors who rule locally within the Persian Empire
- 6. The pharaoh who, among other things, made a treaty with the Hittites promising peace and brotherhood forever
- 7. A region of Africa that straddles the upper Nile River
- 9. is believed to have been the founder of Daoism.
- 11. The Chaldean king who restored Babylon after it was conquered by the Chaldeans
- 14. He was a Persian king who began conquering neighboring kingdoms from 550 to 539 B.C.
- 16. China's most influential scholar and teacher of moral character.
- 18. Asiatic invaders who ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 B.C
- 19. He is known to have collected more than 20,000 stone tablets from throughout the fertile crescent, including the "Epic of Gilgamesh."
- 20. The capital of Assyria
- 21. The successor to Cymbyses
Down
- 1. Rests on the belief that a highly efficient and powerful government is key to maintaining order
- 3. A government that has unlimited power and uses it arbitrarily
- 4. She was one of the rulers of the New Kingdom who declared herself pharaoh because her stepson, who was heir to the throne, was a young child.
- 5. A Kushite king who, in 1751 B.C., overthrew the Libyan dynasty
- 8. A trained civil service that runs the government by procedure
- 10. A book of oracles intended to solve ethical or practical problems.
- 12. He taught that the Earth is a battleground for the great struggle between good and evil.
- 13. A Nubian kingdom that was dominated for centuries by Egypt
- 15. A southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C.
- 16. He was the son of Cyrus who conquered Egypt but had a very short reign.
- 17. A Southwest-Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian Empire