Ancient River Valleys

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Any wind that changes direction with the seasons (7)
  2. 5. A large and distinctive landmass that is a distinct part of some continent (12)
  3. 7. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family (7)
  4. 9. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river (6)
  5. 10. The higher of two berths (5)
  6. 12. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (9)
  7. 13. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings (7)
  8. 15. An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through (5)

Down

  1. 1. Early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (9)
  2. 2. An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority (8)
  3. 4. A large mass of land projecting into a body of water (9)
  4. 6. A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex (7)
  5. 8. An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia (9)
  6. 11. A river in southwestern Asia (9)
  7. 12. A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet (plural) (9)
  8. 14. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)