Across
- 3. a region situated between two rivers
- 6. the source of a Phoenician purple dye that only the wealthy could afford
- 8. a changeless reality with no suffering
- 9. the civilization responsible for a system of numbers based on increments of 60
- 10. Ham's son
- 14. the study of the patterns of the planets and stars
- 16. an Indian language
- 17. a system of symbols adopted by
Down
- 1. a Babylonian king
- 2. a belief in only one God
- 4. a method of preserving a body
- 5. Siddhartha Gautama
- 7. an early system of symbols used to communicate
- 11. a phoenician God associated with child sacrifice
- 12. a wedge-shaped tool used to carve symbols into wet clay
- 13. Abraham's son
- 15. a Persian conqueror