Across
- 2. scattering of people
- 6. earliest form of writing invented by Sumerians, from the latin word "cuneus" which means "wedge"
- 7. chief minister that would supervise the business of government
- 10. teaching a belief in one God
- 11. laws that deal with private rights and matters
- 14. the preservation of the dead
- 15. rich soil
- 16. a triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- 18. system of ranks in a city-state
- 20. binding agreement
- 22. a plant that grows along the banks of the Nile used to make a paperlike writing material
Down
- 1. exchanging one set of goods of services for another
- 3. ruling family
- 4. spiritual leaders
- 5. simpler form of writing for everyday use
- 8. another name for a waterfall
- 9. what Egyptian rulers were called
- 12. form of picture writing developed by ancient Egyptians
- 13. largest buildings in the form of pyramid-temples
- 17. territory settled and ruled by people from a distant land
- 19. another word for province
- 21. moral standards of behavior