Across
- 4. king of Babylon created the first formal law code to rule his empire
- 7. range which isolated ancient China and India from other ancient civilizations
- 13. reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material used for writing on
- 14. change in human life caused by the beginning of farming (people’s shift from food gathering to food producing)
Down
- 1. in which the ruler is a divine figure (god) or the government is controlled by religious leaders
- 2. Spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another
- 3. Egyptian writing system using pictures to represent ideas and sounds
- 5. Chinese dynasty which developed along the Yellow (Huang He) and Yangtze Rivers
- 6. of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 BC
- 8. civilization found along the Indus and Ganges Rivers in northern India
- 9. civilization centered on the Nile River in northern Africa
- 10. of ancient Egypt - considered a god, as well as a political and military leader
- 11. civilization found in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- 12. An area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia (between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers) where the first civilizations began.