Across
- 3. system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds
- 5. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- 6. system of ranking groups
- 7. a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages
- 9. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
- 10. ruling family
Down
- 1. to arrange or set down in writing
- 2. believing in one god
- 4. (1792 B.C.–1750 B.C.) Hammurabi became the first king of the Babylonian empire. He inherited the power from his father, who extended Babylon’s control across Mesopotamia. Hammurabi is known for writing the first code of law in recorded history.
- 8. a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler