Across
- 2. New Kingdom ruler who encouraged trade
- 4. Huangdi, First emperor of China; leader of the Qin Dynasty
- 6. Group of powerful seafaring people
- 8. Minos, King of Knossos
- 10. First five books of the Hebrew Bible
- 12. Governor who ruled locally
- 14. Persian king who put satraps in place and built the Royal Road
- 16. According to the Torah, the man who led the Israelites out of slavery
- 20. People who helped destroy the Assyrian empire
- 21. Dynasty, Dynasty that unified China
- 23. Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain
- 24. Road, Road that helped unify the Persian Empire
- 25. Gautama, Founder of Buddhism
- 26. Dry grasslands
- 28. Assyrian king and empire builder
- 31. Good or bad deeds
- 33. Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon
- 36. Philosophy of Laozi that puts people in touch with the forces of nature
- 37. Persian king who created a huge empire
Down
- 1. China’s most influential scholar
- 3. Payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power.
- 5. Invaders that ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 BCE
- 7. Religion that teacher that every living creature has a soul and no living creature can be harmed
- 9. Group of Indo-Europeans
- 11. Group of Asian peoples who migrated to many different places.
- 13. Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean
- 15. Government in which the ruler has unlimited power
- 17. Chinese idea that a highly efficient and powerful government is key to social order
- 18. Minoan capital city
- 19. Israelite kingdom in Canaan
- 22. Group of Indo-European peoples who occupied Anatolia
- 27. Ancient home of the Israelites
- 29. of Africa bordering Egypt.
- 30. “Father”, or the first, of the Jewish people
- 32. Large peninsula in modern-day Turkey
- 34. Mutual promise between God and the Jewish people
- 35. empire in northern Mesopotamia