Across
- 3. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
- 5. historical region in the Middle East
- 9. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
- 12. an ancient Indian concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism
- 13. the process of preserving a body after death through desiccation
- 14. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
- 15. the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
- 18. the pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt
- 19. a large, distinct landmass that's part of a continent
- 20. the spread of cultural elements like ideas
Down
- 1. a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East
- 2. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 4. an ancient Egyptian king of the Early Dynastic Period
- 6. supreme monarch of ancient Egypt
- 7. a geometric shape with a polygonal base and triangular sides meeting at an apex
- 8. the belief that the soul or non-physical essence of a being is reborn into a new physical body after death
- 10. sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire
- 11. ancient writing material made from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus reed
- 16. a rainy period in South and Southeast Asia between May and September
- 17. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority