MWH CHAPTER 2: ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT

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  1. 3. THE FIRST CIVILIZATION TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEASTERN MESOPOTAMIA
  2. 5. A WRITING SYSTEM IN WHICH SYMBOLS OR PICTURES REPRESENT OBJECTS, CONCEPTS, OR SOUNDS
  3. 7. THE BELIEF IN ONE GOD
  4. 8. EGYPT'S FIRST FEMALE RULER
  5. 9. "THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS"
  6. 14. PERSIAN PHILOSOPHER WHO DEVELOPED A RELIGION HONORING THE WISE GOD AHURA MAZDA
  7. 16. GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD
  8. 19. BABYLONIAN KING KNOWN FOR HIS LAW CODE
  9. 20. A TRIANGULAR SWAMPY AREA NEAR THE MOUTH OF A RIVER
  10. 21. THE GODDESS WHO "REMEMBERED" HER DEAD HUSBAND
  11. 22. MAN WHO LED THE ISRAELITES OUT OF BONDAGE
  12. 23. THE KINGS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
  13. 24. A RULING FAMILY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
  14. 26. ONE OF THE OLDEST STORIES IN WORLD HISTORY, ABOUT A DEMIGOD WHO SEEKS IMMORTALITY
  15. 28. "HE WHO SERVES THE ATON"; FATHER OF KING TUT
  16. 29. PHAROAH WHO RULED FOR 66 YEARS
  17. 30. USED TO NAVIGATE THE UNDERWORLD
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  1. 1. A LARGE STEPPED PLATFORM THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TOPPED BY A TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE CHIEF GOD OF A CITY
  2. 2. "WEDGE SHAPED WRITING"
  3. 4. THE SPREADING OUT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
  4. 6. HATHSHEPSUT'S STEP-SON WHO ALSO SERVED AS PHAROAH
  5. 10. A HOLY DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP
  6. 11. THE FATHER OF THE ISRAELITE PEOPLE
  7. 12. THE CHIEF MINISTER OF THE KING OF ANCIENT EGYPT
  8. 13. BABYLONIAN KING FOR BUILDING THE HANGING GARDENS
  9. 15. THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
  10. 17. THE STRONG AND WISE SECOND KING OF ISRAEL
  11. 18. DISCOVERED IN 1799 BY FRENCH SCHOLAR JEAN CHAMPOLLION AND USED TO DECIPHER HEIROGLYPHICS
  12. 25. RULER OF AKKAD
  13. 27. DAVID'S SON AND 3RD KING OF ISRAEL