unit 1 crossword by Ryder o

3. was a pivotal ruler of Early Dynastic Egypt
5. the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire
8. (1479-1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
11. reign was a period of great prosperity and general peace.
14. a boomerang-shaped region in the Middle East
15. wealthy capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in modern-day Sudan
16. an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
18. the spread of cultural elements

1. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
2. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
4. a realm controlled by a monarch or other official and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries.
6. an ancient civilization in the Nile Valley (modern Sudan/Egypt) known for gold, trade (ivory, incense), and powerful kingdoms like Kush
7. A landform (river delta) created by deposition of sediment at the mouth of a river as the flow enters slower-moving or standing water.
9. "land between the rivers" (Tigris & Euphrates)
10. most commonly refers to a sequence of rulers from the same family or, in popular culture, two major American television soap operas.
11. a dynasty of West-Semitic people from Canaan who ruled northern Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period
12. god-kings and supreme rulers of ancient Egypt
13. ancient Egypt's peak, an era of immense power, wealth, and expansion, often called the Egyptian Empire, marked by iconic pharaohs like Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II, grand monuments (like those at Karnak and Valley of the Kings), and territorial growth into Nubia and the Levant
17. powerful ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley
19. his long, prosperous reign (66 years), powerful military leadership (Battle of Kadesh), and monumental building projects, including the Abu Simbel temples and expansion of Karnak