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