Across
- 3. Road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia
- 4. Respect for one’s parents and ancestors
- 8. Hatshepsut’s stepson; expands Nubian empire by invading Palestine, Syria, and Nubia
- 10. Persian king who began to conquer several neighboring kingdoms in the year 550 BC; honored his conquered civilizations’ religions and customs
- 14. China’s most influential scholar; born in 551 BC and had a deep desire to maintain peace and harmony through the use of respect for others and for themselves
- 15. Region around the upper Nile; original home to the Kushites
- 17. Assyrian king who bragged that he destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon, and ordered most of its inhabitants killed
- 19. Pharoah whose reign most noted for her trade expeditions, not war
- 21. Southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 BC
- 22. Pharaoh who made a treaty between him and the Hittite king to provide peace for both their people; built great palaces and magnificent temples
- 25. King Cyrus’s son who expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt; did not honor other civilizations’ religions and customs
- 27. Ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 BC
- 28. Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty and started Egypt’s 25th dynasty
- 29. The belief that the law was the answer to resolving problems in China’s society
- 30. Center of the Kush dynasty from about 250 BC to AD 150; known for its manufacture of iron weapons and tools
Down
- 1. Chaldean king who restored Babylon
- 2. Short-lived Chinese dynasty that replaced the Zhou Dynasty in the third century BC
- 5. a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner
- 6. Group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 BC
- 7. 2 powers that together represented the natural rhythms of life
- 9. Noble of the ruling dynasty in Persia who seized the throne after Cambyses and brought order to the empire; conquered parts of India and Afghanistan
- 10. Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian empire; home to Abraham, as he come from Ur of the __________
- 11. Persian prophet who developed the religion of Zoroastrianism to answer the question as to why there is so much suffering on Earth
- 12. Trained civil service
- 13. Assyria’s capital established by Sennacherib; sits along the Tigris River
- 16. A governor of a province in the Persian empire
- 18. Search for knowledge and understanding of nature; nothing human-made/needed matters; only natural relations do
- 20. Period of ancient Egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the Hyksos rulers, lasting from about 1570 to 1705 BC
- 23. Ruler of the Qin Dynasty who eliminated internal strife and began to conquer neighboring lands; name means “First Emperor”
- 24. Assyrian king who built one of the world’s largest library, which included more than 20000 clay tablets from throughout the Fertile Crescent
- 26. Southwest Asian people who helped destroy the Assyrian empire