Across
- 2. Code The first major collection of laws in history and was set out for all to see, even though few people could read
- 5. a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
- 7. site of the world’s first civilization, located in southeastern Mesopotamia
- 9. ruling family
- 13. system of writing in which pictures
- 14. an area that stretches in an arc from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
- 15. title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
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- 1. One of the largest, oldest settlements in Mesopotamia and the Middle East
- 3. burial vaults for the pharaohs
- 4. a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city-state’s chief god or goddess
- 6. region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- 8. believing in many gods
- 10. the cultivation of food and goods through farming
- 11. The world's longest river
- 12. These systems were built in ancient Egypt to water the crops from the Nile River