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Across
  1. 2. a form of writing practiced by ancient Mesopotamians.
  2. 7. famed creator of an ancient lawcode, one of the most important in the ancient world
  3. 9. the most common form of government in the ancient world
  4. 10. the Babylonian sun god
  5. 11. a pictographic script invented by the Egyptians, an African people
  6. 15. an ancient people inhabiting the island of Minos, present-day Crete.
  7. 16. the cultivation of olives, grapes, and grains in a single, interconnected agricultural system.
  8. 17. a powerful coalition of seaborne invaders from the north at about 1190 b.c.e., who brought about a dark period in the West
  9. 18. belief in many gods
Down
  1. 1. first humans, most of whom lived in egalitarian bands and roamed for food
  2. 3. the land between the two rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris
  3. 4. the hero of an epic who seeks a way to cheat death
  4. 5. temple towers in Mesopotamia
  5. 6. ranking people as superior or inferior
  6. 8. domination by men in politics, society, and economics
  7. 12. an urban center exercising control over the surrounding countryside
  8. 13. a political state in which a single power rules formerly independent peoples.
  9. 14. a way of life based on agriculture and trade, with cities having large buildings for religion and government