Across
- 2. Animal remnants and tortoise shells used to submit questions to the gods
- 4. This area means“land between the rivers” in Greek
- 7. professional record keepers
- 8. group of peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler
- 11. process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another
- 12. a pyramid-shaped, tiered monument found in Ur
- 13. Also known as the Indus Valley Civilization
- 14. the belief in more than one god
- 16. paperlike writing surface that the Egyptians made from reeds
Down
- 1. An arc of land in Southwest Asia that provided rich farming land in ancient times
- 3. type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
- 5. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
- 6. The Chinese view that royal authority came from divinity.
- 9. Egyptian writing system in which symbols stood for sounds as well as ideas
- 10. A series of rulers from a single family
- 15. The Babylonian ruler who put together a single, uniform code of laws