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Down: 1) In the government of many ancient societies, a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and write using cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, or other early, cumbersome writing system.2) Ruler of the city-state of Akkad around 2350 B.C.E. was the first to unite many city-states under on king and capital.3) A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. It was used to produce a coarse paper like writing medium.4) The breakdown of economic, social, political, and cultural systems in the Indus River Valley.5) an ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used one anthropologist to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural values.7) people who support themselves by hunting wild animals in gathering wild edible plants and insects.8) two early towns in the Middle East that have been extensively excavated.12) The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient agricultural revolutions. It follows the Paleolithic period.13) A large triangular stone monument used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king.14) A system of writing in which wedged shaped symbols represented terms or phrases.15) the Greek word for land between the rivers, reflecting the centrality of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.19) a region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Across: 6) refers to a system of writing using ancient Egyptian symbols.9) Site of one of the great cities of the Indus River Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E.10) artificial application of water to the land or soil11) The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic revolution.13) The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state. Believed to be an earthly manifestation of the gods, he used his absolute power to maintain the safety and prosperity of Egypt.16) the people dominated southern Mesopotamia to the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamia culture – such as irrigation technology, Cuneiform, and religious conceptions-taken over by the Semitic successors17) Family of related languages spoken across western parts of western Asia and northern Africa. These languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician.18) Largest of the Indus river cities20) A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. 21) self-governing urban centers and agricultural territories they controlled.22) Amorite leader of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia. He is well known for a code of laws, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.23) the period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic age.
 

 

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