Fertile Crescent and Nile Valley

1. writer
2. large arc of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
6. set of letters that can be combined to form written words
9. arrangement in which people specialize in specific tasks
10. long poems that tell the story of a hero
12. wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart
16. picture symbols that represented objects such as trees or animals
17. land with different territories and people under a single rule
18. huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that meet at a top point
20. southern part of Egypt, located upriver in relation to the Nile’s flow
21. organized society within a specific area
23. people from rich and powerful families
24. specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth
25. government ruled by religious authorities
26. fertile mix of rich soil and small rocks
27. more of something than is needed
28. river rapids
30. people who performed religious ceremonies
33. triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river
34. pyramid-shaped temple tower
35. worship of many gods

1. division of society by rank or class
3. application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
4. period in Egyptian history that lasted from about 2700 to 2200 BC
5. important Mesopotamian city-state near present-day Baghdad
7. northern part of Egypt, located downriver in relation to the Nile’s flow
8. the science of building
11. human-made waterways
13. political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside
14. important river in Egypt
15. way of supplying water to an area of land
19. series of rulers from the same family
22. life after death, a widely held ancient Egyptian belief
29. earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of life
30. ruler of ancient Egypt, literally means “great house”
31. area of Mesopotamia where the world’s first civilization was developed
32. system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of words