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Date:_____________
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1. Triangular area of marshland formed by the deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers. ______________
2. Preservation of the dead. _______________________
3. Sumerian pyramid-shaped temple. ________________________
4. Governor of a province of the Persian Empire. __________________
5. Belief in one God. ______________________
6. Egyptian queen who encouraged trade with eastern Mediterranean lands. _____________________________
7. Pharaoh who spread Egyptian rule northward to Syria and conquered Nubia. ____________________
8. Ruler who published the first major collection of written laws. ___________________________
9. King who encouraged Babylonian learning. _________________________
10. Ruler who united the Persian Empire. _______________________
11. Egyptians traded and fought with them. ______________________
12. The river valley where Egyptian Civilization developed. _________________________
13. Egyptians viewed there pharaohs as these. ______________________
14. The Pyramid Age of Egyptian history. ___________________________________
15. All Egyptians believed in this. _____________________________
16. Egyptians used this to keep records. __________________________________
17. Most Egyptians belonged to this group.__________________________________
18. Arc of land curving from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean. __________________________________
19. Sumerians viewed their rulers as __________________ of the gods.
20. Describes the Sumerian view of the afterlife. _____________________
21. Sumer was made up of independent ________________________________
22. Sumerian poem. ___________________________________________
23. “Carriers of Civilization” ____________________________
24. The Phoenicians invented this to help them do business. _____________________________
25. He united the Hebrew tribes into a single nation – Israel. _____________________________
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Date:________________
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5. belief in one God
7. United the Hebrew tribes into a single nation
10. The group most Egyptians belonged to
14. Egyptian queen who encouraged trade with eastern Mediterranean lands
15. triangula area of marshland at the mouth of some rivers
16. Ruler who published the first major collection of laws
18. Sumerians viewed their rulers as ___________ to the gods
19. ruler who united the Persian Empire
20. "Carriers of Civilization"
21. King who encouraged Babylonian learning
22. Pharaoh who expanded the Egyptian empire north to Syria and south to Nubia
23. used by Egyptians to keep records
24. Sumer was a group of independent ____________
25. preservation of the dead
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1. Describes the Sumerian view of the afterlife
2. Egypt traded and fought with them
3. Pyramid building age
4. Sumerian pyramid-shaped temple
6. River valley where Egyptian Civilization developed
8. all Egyptians believed in this
9. Egyptians viewed their pharaohs as these
11. Invented by the Phoenicians to help them do business
12. governor of a province in the Persian Empire
13. Sumerian poem, the Epic of _________
17. arc of land curving from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean
Word Bank
delta mummification ziggurat satrap monotheism Hatshepsut Ramses
Hammurabi Nebuchadnezzar Darius Nubia Nile gods Old Kingdom afterlife
hieroglyphics farmers Fertile Crescent servants grim city-states Gilgamesh
Phoenicians alphabet David