Rise of Civilization

4. Time period after the stone age when bronze was widely used for tools and weapons.
5. Egyptian writing style that in Greek means "sacred carving".
7. Skilled workers who make goods by hand.
10. A city and it's surrounding land that was basically like it's own country.
11. Egyptian God-kings.
13. This is a large territory that has been brought together by combining several previously independent cities or nations under the control of one ruler.
15. Huge triangle shaped buildings that were used as monuments and tombs for Egypt's kings.
17. Type of bones and tortoise shells that had questions scratched into them for the gods.

1. Pyramid shaped building usually having stairs first found in Mesopotamia.
2. Greek word meaning "land between the rivers".
3. A broad, marshy triangular shaped piece of land at the mouth of a river formed by silt.
6. Yellowish silt deposited by the Huang He river.
8. Professional record keepers or writers.
9. Political system in which nobles or lords grant are granted the use of land owned by the king. In return, nobles owe loyalty to king.
12. Civilizations found in the Indus valley.
14. Seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.
16. Large arc of land that had some of the best farming in Southwest Asia.
18. Early type of writing meaning "wedge shaped".