Across
- 1. the chief god of the Canaanites
- 4. the king who led Israel to the peak of its greatness as a nation-state
- 6. God confused man's language causing men to disperse
- 8. the idea that man was not created directly by God but instead "evolved" from the animals
- 9. the Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerians
- 10. Noah's three sons who repopulated the world after the Flood
- 14. descendants of those who stayed in the general vicinity of the Tower of Babel after the dispersion, and whose greatest accomplishment was writing
- 17. the death penalty
- 20. the pharaoh who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
- 21. an area in the Middle East known for its ability to grow crops and its shape is like a crescent moon
- 22. the pharaoh who had many giant statues of himself
- 24. means "beginning"; first book of the Bible
- 25. the Hittite city burned by the Assyrians
Down
- 2. the very first man; his name means "man"
- 3. a mighty hunter who encouraged the people to build the Tower of Babel
- 5. the king of Babylon who united all of Mesopotamia under his rule
- 7. the chief god of Babylon who became king of all the gods
- 9. the king who asked God for wisdom
- 11. a group of people who controlled an empire in Asia Minor and who used their resources for war and conquest
- 12. putting man in place of or above God
- 13. a female pharaoh
- 15. the first earthly king of Israel
- 16. prosperous sea traders who established a great network of trading posts
- 17. the people to whom the Southern Kingdom fell in the 500s BC
- 18. the pharaoh when the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent
- 19. the first woman; her name means "mother of all"
- 23. the people to whom the Northern Kingdom and Hittites fell in the 700s BC