Across
- 3. includes the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea and a plain, its means, “land between the rulers.”
- 4. is the king who led the Babylonian empire after they conquered Sumer, from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C.
- 5. government in which rule is based on religious authority.
- 6. is a process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another.
- 10. Egyptian god-kings.
- 12. the belief in more than one god.
- 13. also known as “sacred carving,” an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
Down
- 1. a marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
- 2. a king who helped unite lower and upper Egypt more evidence points to him being the person to unite the two.
- 3. royals and elite egytian bodies were preserved, involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
- 6. each city and the surrounding land it controls.
- 7. series of rulers from a single family.
- 8. the arc of land in South East Asia, its land is rich.
- 9. a massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were uilt in eqypt as burial places for old kingdom pharaohs.
- 11. is a political unit in which a number of people or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
- 14. a tall reed that grows in the nile delta, used by ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike material for writing on.