Across
- 3. brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler
- 4. the belief in multiple gods
- 6. the process in which a new idea or product spreads from one culture to another
- 8. a city and its surrounding land functioning as an independent political unit
Down
- 1. a series of rulers from a single family
- 2. an arc of rich land farmland in Southwest Asia between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
- 5. land facing the Mediterranean Sea and is a plain. Means "land between the rivers" in Greek
- 7. the king of the Babylonian Empire