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Across 2. JUDAISM 4. YAHWEH 7. INCA 10. ZOROASTRIANISM 12. ABRAHAM 13. BANTU-MIGRATION 17. 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. 18. HIEROGLYPHICS 20. MONOTHEISM 22. AZTECS 26. an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq 27. MAYA 28. GUPTA 30. an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq. 31. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels 32. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. 33. PHOENICIANS 34. HEBREWS

Down 1. is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. 3. MAURYAN-EMPIRE 5. ASHOKA 6. a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters. 8. ZIGGURAT 9. a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150 miles (1850 km) long. 11. 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia. 14. TEN-COMMANDMENTS 15. the belief in or worship of more than one god. 16. an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq. 19. OLMEC 20. MESOAMERICA 21. TORAH 23. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. 24. GOLDEN-AGE 25. PYRAMIDS 29. PHARAOH