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| a ring shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon |
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| a wide inlet of sea or lake along a shoreline |
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| a long narrow valley between high cliffs |
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| a pice of land projecting into a body of water |
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| a bowl shaped cavity at the mouth of a volcano |
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| a deposite of soil formed at the moth of a large river |
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| moving in the direction that a river flows |
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| a slowly moving piece of ice |
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| a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land |
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| a place on the coast where boats can find shelter |
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| a body of land surrounded by water |
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| a narrow strip of land with sea on both sides connecting two larger bodies of land |
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| a body of water completely surrounded by land |
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| a wall of connected mountains |
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| a fertile spot in a desert |
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| a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides |
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| a large piece of flat land |
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| a tract of flat land extending out to sea |
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| a place on the coast where boats can find shelter |
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| the place where a river flows into a larger body of water |
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| the river's supplier of water |
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| a narrow strip of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water |
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| a line marking the upper limit of tree growth |
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| a stream leading into a larger river or stream |
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| the opposite direction of the river's flow |
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| the primate species to which modern humans belong; humans regarded as a species |
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| extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain |
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| extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics |
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| a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics |
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| a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC |
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| the period of time before written records |
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| a member of a hunting and gathering society |
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| the development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering |
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| a crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf |
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| fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, esp. in a channel or harbor |
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| supplying dry land with water by means of ditches and canals |
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| an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand |
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| the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced |
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| an ancient region of southwestern Asia in present-day Iraq, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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| a river of southwestern Asia joins the Tigris River |
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| a river in southwestern Asia joins the Euphrates River |
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| a legendary king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk |
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| the belief in or worship of more than one god |
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| denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia |
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| an ancient Sumerian city, formerly on the Euphrates River, in southern Iraq |
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| a well-preserved ancient law code |
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| large wine bottle, equivalent in capacity to about twenty regular bottles |
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| egyptian pharaoh; reigned c.3100 bc. He founded the first dynasty that ruled Egypt |
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| a river in eastern Africa, the longest river in the world |
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| a cat of a hairless breed, originally from North America |
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| a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, esp. one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt |
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| a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment with natron and resin, and wrapping in bandages |
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| a stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark |
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| the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt |
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| king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments |
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| written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols |
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| an inscribed stone found near Rosetta on the western mouth of the Nile in 1799 |
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| an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty |
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| the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis. God promised him and his descendants the land of Canaan |
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| hebrew prophet and lawgiver; brother of Aaron. According to the biblical account, he was born in Egypt and led the Israelites across the desert toward the Promised Land |
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| the departure of the Israelites from Egypt |
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| the divine rules of conduct given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai |
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| king of Judah and Israel c.1000–c.962 bc. In the biblical account, he killed the Philistine Goliath and, on Saul's death, became king, making Jerusalem his capital |
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| son of David; king of Israel. In the Bible he is traditionally associated with the Song of Solomon |
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| jews living outside Israel |
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| the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures |
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| the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings |
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