First Civilizations

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings (7)
  2. 7. A writing system using picture symbols (plural) (13)
  3. 9. Early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (9)
  4. 10. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family (7)
  5. 12. An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia (9)
  6. 13. An ancient region of northeastern Africa on the Nile (5)
  7. 14. A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland (6)
  8. 15. Paper made from the ___ plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat (7)

Down

  1. 1. The power or capacity of an organism to ___ unfavorable environmental conditions (9)
  2. 3. The world's longest river (4)
  3. 4. The Pakistan intelligence agency (plural) (4)
  4. 5. Believing that there is only one god (12)
  5. 6. Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead (6)
  6. 8. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (9)
  7. 10. A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body (5)
  8. 11. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system (9)