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  1. 4. Son of Zeus. Handsome young god of poetry and music. The most widely worshiped of the Greek gods.
  2. 6. A public market and meeting place in an ancient Greek city
  3. 8. A type of serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character.
  4. 9. King of the gods and goddesses
  5. 10. To force someone to leave their country.
  6. 12. Someone who uses reason and thinking to understand big questions about life, truth, and morality. They seek wisdom by asking deep questions about the world.
  7. 15. An ancient Egyptian city, the site of the Great Pyramid.
  8. 16. The earliest known writing system developed by the Sumerians
  9. 19. A life after death
  10. 20. An organized list/set of laws and rules
  11. 21. The belief in many gods
  12. 24. an early form of paper made from a reed plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile Delta, the plant used to make paper.
  13. 27. A seller of goods
  14. 28. Greece's highest mountain, Home of the Twelve Olympian's
  15. 29. A set of symbols that represent the sound of a language
  16. 30. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for, someone else
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  1. 1. large, stepped pyramid-shaped temple in ancient Mesopotamia used to worship the gods
  2. 2. The belief in one God
  3. 3. The lowest level of most social classes
  4. 5. A time when there is so little food that many people starve
  5. 7. The process of artificially preserving a body before burial
  6. 11. In Ancient Greece, a sacred site where a god or goddess was consulted, any priest or priestess who spoke to the gods
  7. 13. Stone An ancient Egyptian slab inscribed with 3 languages that helped decode Egyptian hieroglyphs
  8. 14. Pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds.
  9. 17. A regular payment made to a powerful state or country by a weaker one
  10. 18. A city-state in ancient Greece; the capital of modern Greece
  11. 22. A huge building with four sloping triangular-shaped sides built as royal tombs in Egypt.
  12. 23. A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the skies.
  13. 25. Famous Greek philosopher that was put to death by authorities
  14. 26. A dead body preserved in lifelike condition.