Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• mummification : process by which a body is preserved after death
• fertile crescent : valley between the tigris and euphrates rivers, extended from the mediterranean sea to the persian gulf, modern day iraq
• pyramid : resting place for egyptian kings after death
• monotheism : belief in one gods
• hukhata : this means “good words”
• cuneiform : mesopotamian writing system
• humata : this means “good thoughts”
• alphabet : phoenician writing system
• sumer : first city-state in mesopotamia
• theocracy : government in which the ruler is considered to be a divine figure
• assyrian : this empire invented the battering ram.
• empire : a large political unit that controls many peoples and territories
• pharaoh : egyptian ruler thought of as a god
• mesopotamia : greek word meaning “between the rivers”
• city state : city and the surrounding countryside under one political and economic control
• mesopotamia : invented wagon wheel, potter’s wheel, the sun dial, the arch and bronze
• cyrus : this persian emperor allowed the jews to return to jerusalem after defeating the babylonians.
• passover : the major jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the israelite's from egyptian slavery
• hieroglyphics : egyptian writing system
• polytheism : belief in many gods
• havarashta : this means “good deeds”
• daruis : this persian emperor divided empire into 20 satrapies
• ziggurats : mesopotamian temple