Unit 2-Early Civilizations

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of ___ (7)
  2. 6. A member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C (plural) (11)
  3. 9. Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit (plural) (5)
  4. 10. A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex (7)
  5. 11. Country in Asia with the Great Wall (5)
  6. 12. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC (5)

Down

  1. 1. A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas (7)
  2. 2. The world's longest ___ (9)
  3. 4. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates (11)
  4. 5. An ancient language of India (8)
  5. 6. Paper made from the ___ plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat (7)
  6. 7. An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through (5)
  7. 8. A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH (6)