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Down: 1) is a complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a number of common elements3) Claim the Chinese kings of the Zhou dynasty that they had direct authority from heaven to rule and to keep order in the universe5) a highly simplified version of hieroglyphics8) It was the shift from hunting animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and growing of food on a regular basis10) Sumerian writing system; means "wedge-shaped"12) basic units of Sumerian civilization14) a Semitic people living to the north of the Sumerians15) Adaptation of human use20) a large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, controlling many peoples21) The major indian religious system, which has its origins in the religious beliefs of Aryans who settled India after 1500 B.C. Across: 2) Land between the rivers;" area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers4) massive structures built as tombs for the pharaohs6) A religious doctrine introduced in northern India in the sixth century B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, or "Enlightenment One"7) A set of rigid categories in ancient India that determined a person's occupation and economic potential as well as his or her position in society, based partly on skin color9) a society which is dominated by men11) People who moved from place to place13) Old Kingdom, New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom16) a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family17) The rebirth of an individual's soul in a different form after death18) complex system of writing meaning "sacred writings" that is made up of pictures and forms19) It was at the end of the last ice age, around 8000 BC22) rule by a king or queen23) The duty of family members to subordinate theur needs and desires to those of the male head of the family, a concept important in Confucianism 24) The system of political and ethical ideas formulated by the Chinese philosopher Confucius toward the end of the Zhou dynasty; it intended to help restore order to a society that was in a state of confusion 25) collection of laws devised by Hammurabi in ancient Babylon
 

 

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