Unit 1 Review

3. Paper-like material used by ancient Egyptians
4. Region known as the "Cradle of Civilization"
5. Egyptian record stone listing kings and events
6. Early wedge-shaped writing system of Sumer
9. System that divides geography into five key concepts (abbrev.)
12. Process of adopting traits from another culture without losing one’s own
14. One of the Two rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia
15. A city and the surrounding land it controls
16. A society with cities, government, and specialized workers

1. First written legal code
2. Process of fully absorbing into a new culture
7. Movement of people, goods, and ideas
8. The belief that kings were chosen by the gods
10. Ancient Egyptian writer/recorder of information
11. Name of the fertile river valley in Africa called the "Cradle of Humankind" (3 words)
13. Egyptian river whose flooding provided fertile soil