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