unit 1 vocab

2. The Egyptians built these enormous stone tombs that were the burial places of the early pharaohs.
4. Service Working for the government.
6. A seasonal wind.
11. The Indian term for ‘ruler’.
13. A trade good sent out of a country.
15. A long poem that tells about the life of a hero.
16. Pictures or symbols that represent ideas, sounds, or objects.
18. The process of making things similar.
19. Rulers who were all from the same ruling family.
20. (Deities)Gods and Goddesses.
22. Simple pictures to stand for objects and ideas.

1. Road A 4,000 mile long network of trade routes from China to the Mediterranean Sea on land.
3. Hindus believe that a soul survives death to be reborn in a new body. This rebirth is _______
5. "Great House" Eventually it came to mean the rulers themselves.
7. A special priest that could tell the future using animal bones.
8. Military leaders who had their own armies, chosen by kings to rule the cities/other parts of the kings
9. The Egyptians developed a way of preserving the bodies of the dead. The wrapped/preserved body is
10. Skilled workers, farmers, or merchants.
12. Rich yellow soil that blows into the Yellow River (Huang He), giving it its name.
14. Egyptians developed a kind of paper made from the papyrus reed plant that grows along the Nile River
17. A social group into which a person is born.
21. A product brought into a country.