Across
- 1. followed the Ten Commandments and worshipped one God, Yahweh, requiring kindness to others
- 6. famed Babylonian king who established an elaborate law code
- 7. earliest era in civilization during which agriculture and cities emerged
- 10. competed with Egypt for control of the Levant, engaging in battle of Kadesh in 1274 BC
- 11. ruthless warriors who conquered much of the Middle East, c. 900-600 BC
- 12. fertile Crescent region bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates
Down
- 2. innovation which separates historic from prehistoric societies
- 3. one of the world's earliest cities, located in the Levant, famously captured by Joshua
- 4. greatest of the Israelite kings, author of psalms, vanquished the Philistines
- 5. lived in city-state polities, created cuneiform and worshipped in ziggurats
- 8. established first united kingdom, c. 3000 BC, uniting its Upper and Lower regions
- 9. scholarly study of civilizations and their peoples