Across
- 1. the study of the movement and positions of celestial bodies interpreted as how they influence on human affairs
- 3. earliest form of writing, writing of Sumer
- 6. first great women ruler
- 12. belief in one god
- 13. originators of the alphabet
- 14. the study of celestial bodies
- 15. the vital existence of the people of egypt
- 17. best remembered for his code of laws
- 20. refused to let the children of israel to
- 22. human society characterized by cities, labor, government, arts, religion
- 23. "Age of the Pharaohs"
- 25. the rule of one people over another
- 26. became the first king of the Persian empire
- 27. regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature
- 28. greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharoah
- 30. Egyptian writing
- 31. symbolic of man's rebellion against God
Down
- 2. government directly by God
- 4. famous for the discovery of his tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter
- 5. people who taught the Egyptians the art of warfare
- 7. greatest Egyptian warrior king
- 8. term of Christianity to describe the transition of man from innocence to disobedience
- 9. the worship of many gods
- 10. used to decipher hieroglyphics
- 11. known for their trade on land
- 16. established the first known empire
- 18. "Age of the People"
- 19. religion of ancient Persia
- 21. temple towers of Sumerian architecture
- 24. the beginning of history
- 29. first urban civilization in the historical region of southern mesopotamia