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Across 3. Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas 5. Sumer was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia 7. a river in SW Asia 13. a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham. After the Exodus ( c. 1300 BC) they established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and their scriptures and traditions form the basis of the Jewish religion. 14. 'between two rivers' 15. a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible. 17. the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures 20. a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches. 23. Indian empire founded by Chandragupta, 26. a member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. 29. 18th century b.c., king of Babylonia 30. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel 31. father of many 32. The Ten Commandments are laws or rules handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. 33. a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

Down 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews. 2. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC. 4. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels. 6. the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit Goptri 8. a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( c. 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization. 9. King of Magadha 10. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. 11. a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters. ... the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety. 12. enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing. 16. The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, 18. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. 19. was a series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, 21. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. 22. the cradle of civilization 23. the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions. 24. an idyllic, often imaginary past time of peace, prosperity, and happiness. 25. the belief in or worship of more than one god. 26. a ruler in ancient Egypt. 27. an object, shape, or arrangement in the form of a pyramid. 28. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand