Learning Contract 2

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Across
  1. 2. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
  2. 4. a region in southern Egypt and the Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea
  3. 5. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
  4. 6. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
  5. 8. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress
  6. 11. the belief in or worship of one god.
  7. 14. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch).
  8. 15. a ruler in ancient Egypt.
  9. 16. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
  10. 18. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
Down
  1. 1. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  2. 3. he ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses
  3. 7. writing consisting of hieroglyphs.
  4. 9. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.
  5. 10. the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
  6. 12. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
  7. 13. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
  8. 17. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.