Across
- 1. During the Vedic period members played specific societal roles
- 6. used by the Shang to ask ancestors for advice
- 7. taught that love and respect were important
- 8. introduction of items made from copper and tin
- 10. legal code that was more forgiving than Hammurabi's
- 11. allowed new rulers to justify overthrowing a ruler
- 14. developed large trading network due to lack of raw materials
- 17. system of Sumerian writing
- 18. most able seafarers of early Mediterranean
- 19. river valley that had Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
- 20. Persian king who was tolerant of others customs
- 23. India depended on these to bring rain for crops
- 24. Akkadian ruler who took control of N. and S. Mesopotamia
- 25. The Egyptian god of the sun was Amon-___.
Down
- 1. sacred writings about Aryan history and society
- 2. group that was most brutal in dealing with opposition
- 3. unique way of life of a group of people
- 4. granite slab used by historians to decode hieroglyphics
- 5. Akhenaten introduced this to Egypt
- 9. new religion in Persia in which people believed in dualism
- 11. site of the world's first known civilization
- 12. Kush expanded to rule this after the Middle Kingdom collapsed
- 13. Egyptian pictures that stand for ideas and sounds.
- 15. Most valuable product of Meroe
- 16. became first king of Egypt
- 21. built to foster communication within the empire
- 22. made a uniform code of laws that unified his empire