Across
- 2. - Before Common Era (same as BC)
- 3. - Sea that connects most of the Civilizations we learned about.
- 4. - (two words) workers with specialized job skills
- 5. - A period of 10 years
- 8. - One of the two major rivers of Mesopotamia that sits on top of the other river.
- 10. - A process to preserve the body by wrapping in cloth
- 13. - life after death
- 18. - Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul
- 19. - A government ruled by religious authorities
- 23. - (Two Words) Nomadic people who lived by hunting animals and gathering plants; no permanent home
- 26. - Stands for Common Era
- 28. diffusion - the spread of cultural traits from one region to another (ex/ Happened after the babylonian captivity with the Jews.)
- 30. - (two words) having more food than needed
- 32. - people’s beliefs and practices about existence, nature, and worship of god or gods
- 33. - A way of supplying water to an area of land
- 34. - First Mesopotamian civilization
- 35. - A scientist who studies human development and culture.
- 37. - system that a community uses to produce goods and services
- 38. - items sent to other regions for trade
- 41. - gods or goddesses
- 42. - beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.
- 45. - A writing surface similar to paper named after the ____ reed that grew along the Nile River in ancient Egypt
- 46. - a period of 100 years
- 47. - One of the major two rivers of Mesopotamia that sits on the bottom of the other river.
- 49. - Changing the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful to humans
- 50. - Tools and skills people use to meet their needs and wants.
Down
- 1. - (two words) Information about a event that does not come directly from a person who experienced that event
- 6. - skilled worker who practices a handicraft
- 7. - (two words) shifted from hunting and gathering to farming
- 9. - complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills.
- 11. - Anno Domoni (In the Year of our Lord) time period after Jesus was born.
- 12. - Ancient Mesopotamian writing.
- 14. - (Two Words) A huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian writing that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.
- 15. - Group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country or area
- 16. - the divisions of society by rank or class living in similar economic conditions.
- 17. - A person who moved from place to place without permanent home
- 20. - title used by the rulers of Egypt
- 21. - began as picture writing to symbols representing sounds and letters
- 22. - goods bought from other regions
- 24. - First Civilization we learned about in Social Studies
- 25. - time dating for period before the birth of Christ (Before Christ)
- 27. - the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them to hinder decomposition
- 29. - A scientist who learns about ancient people by studying the things they left behind.
- 31. - A huge triangular tomb built by the Egyptians and other people
- 36. - A house, chamber, or vault for the dead
- 39. - Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event
- 40. - farming
- 43. - worshiping or believing in more than one god
- 44. - the time before written records
- 48. - An imaginary, mythical creature with a human head and the body of a lion that was often shown on Egyptian statues