Unit 2 Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 2. a rule of conduct or action laid down and enforced by the government
  2. 6. the social and cultural differences between males or females
  3. 7. the land between two rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
  4. 10. belonging to a high class that has special social or political status
  5. 11. a high official
  6. 14. belief in many gods
  7. 17. freshwater fish that is yellowish with dark green vertical stripes and is a popular food
  8. 19. a large Asian freshwater fish often raised for food
  9. 20. freshwater fish inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers and lakes
  10. 21. the process of preserving the bodies of the dead
  11. 22. artificial waterway for boats or for draining or irrigating land
  12. 24. shows the levels of each social class in terms of importance
  13. 25. a country in northeastern Africa
  14. 26. an ancient Egyptian image having the body of a lion and the head of a man, ram, or hawk
  15. 29. term ancient Egyptians used as the official name of their land
  16. 30. the stage of human social development and organization that is considered the most advanced
  17. 33. a building for worship
  18. 35. major river valley in Asia which flows through what is today Pakistan
Down
  1. 1. plant that is made into strips and pressed into material on which one can write
  2. 3. supplying with water by artificial means
  3. 4. collection of laws arranged in some orderly way
  4. 5. an unwritten agreement within a community under which the members most suited perform that occupation
  5. 8. covering or filling with water
  6. 9. four-sided pillar that becomes narrower toward the top and ends in a pyramid
  7. 12. area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  8. 13. a class of scholars and copiers who were central to the functioning of government, the army and the priesthood
  9. 15. hand-operated device for lifting water
  10. 16. the ruler of ancient Egypt
  11. 18. a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends
  12. 23. a barbed spear used especially in hunting large fish
  13. 27. writing made up of pictorial symbols
  14. 28. a broad flat-bottomed boat
  15. 31. a bank built along a river to prevent flooding
  16. 32. members of a social class of low rank who worked in the fields
  17. 34. a massive structure that served as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh and high officials