Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of ___
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- A member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C (plural)
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- Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit (plural)
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- A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
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- Country in Asia with the Great Wall
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- The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
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- A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
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- The world's longest ___
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- The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
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- An ancient language of India
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- Paper made from the ___ plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat
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- An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through
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- A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
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