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- 2. A government controlled by religious leaders
- 4. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
- 7. A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.
- 9. pharaoh for 66 years; great warrior; responsible for much development of Egypt
- 10. The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
- 14. This ruler who united Upper and Lower Egyptian kingdoms
- 17. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
- 18. A ruler of ancient Egypt
- 19. the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
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- 1. Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.
- 3. A series of rulers from the same family
- 5. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- 6. a huge, triangular shaped burial tomb of Egyptian pharaohs
- 8. A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies
- 10. A chart of days and months in a year
- 11. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
- 12. Belief in many gods
- 13. He designed a legal code in early Babylon that gave punishment based on crime and social status.
- 15. A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake
- 16. A long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds