Across
- 1. a king of ancient Egypt considered a god as well as a political and military leader
- 6. the process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another
- 9. a broad marshy triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river
- 10. the belief in more than one god
- 11. a plain in the Fertile Crescent that faces the Mediterranean Sea
- 15. the type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
- 16. a massive structure with a triangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places fir Old Kingdom pharaohs
Down
- 2. first ruler of the Babylonian empire who was known for his strict code of laws
- 3. a process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
- 4. the king of Upper Egypt who united the both kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt
- 5. an ancient represent ideas and sounds
- 7. an arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
- 8. a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit
- 12. a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta used by the ancient Egyptians to make a parerlike material for writing on
- 13. a series of rulers from a single family
- 14. a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler