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Row 1, Col 1 These people found food by hunting and gathering Hunter-gatherer

1,2 The first inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent Sumerians

1,3 A life believed to follow death afterlife

Ways of bringing water to the land irrigation

2,1 Pyramid-shaped tower with a temple at the top ziggurat

2,2 A king of ancient Egypt pharaoh

2,3 Productive soil Fertile

2,4 Society is broken down into different social groups. Class system

3,1 Founder of the religion of Judaism Abraham

3,2 A famous emperor of Ancient Mesopotamia ( B.C.) Hammurabi

3,3 Wedge-shaped writing system of the Sumerians cuneiform

3,4 A writing system that uses pictographs to stand for words or sounds hieroglyphics

4,1 He created a code of laws in Babylon Hammurabi

4,2 People who did the reading and writing in ancient Sumer scribe

4,3 The Egyptian sun god RE

4,4 Greek for “Land Between the Rivers” Mesopotamia

5,1 A paper-like material in ancient Egypt papyrus

5,2 The Egyptian sky god Horus

5,3 A region of fertile soil Located in Iraq, Syria and Turkey Fertile Crescent

5,4 Particles of earth and rock that build up in rivers and streams silt