Eastern Hemisphere Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia
  2. 6. a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system
  3. 8. a large landmass smaller than a continent the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent.
  4. 9. the spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures
  5. 11. sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st (Amorite) dynasty of Babylon
  6. 14. a king of Egypt identified by modern scholars as the Menes of tradition and depicted as the unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt on an ancient slate tablet
  7. 15. the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent.
  8. 17. sacred carvings
  9. 19. an ancient massive structure found especially in Egypt having typically a square ground plan, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top
  10. 20. the community structure of ancient Greece
Down
  1. 1. the belief in many gods
  2. 2. wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river
  3. 3. the writing support invented by the ancient Egyptians
  4. 5. the religious or philosophical belief that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body
  5. 7. a seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region
  6. 10. Great House
  7. 12. The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used
  8. 13. a family or line of rulers, a succession of sovereigns of a country belonging to a single family or tracing their descent to a common ancestor
  9. 16. the exercise of political power by the clergy or laity of a particular religion
  10. 18. a major political unit with a large territory or a number of territories or peoples under one ruler with total authority