Unit 1

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Across
  1. 3. Where the world’s earliest civilization was settled
  2. 4. the longest river in the world
  3. 7. A massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia
  4. 9. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
  5. 12. King of Babylon
  6. 14. the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BC to his own death in 681 BC
  7. 15. Believing in or worshipping multiple gods
  8. 17. an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia
  9. 18. conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire
  10. 19. World’s oldest city
  11. 20. Southern portion of Egypt
Down
  1. 1. The stone age
  2. 2. the king of Persia in 522–486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty.
  3. 5. Someone who lives by traveling from place to place
  4. 6. used in a system of pictorial writing used on ancient Egyptian monuments.
  5. 8. An inhabitant of Akkad
  6. 10. First ruler of Akkadian Empire
  7. 11. the second King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 530 to 522 BC. He was the son and successor of Cyrus the Great.
  8. 13. the longest-reigning king of the Babylonian dynasty.
  9. 16. The earliest known writing system
  10. 17. the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631.