World History Crossword Puzzle

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