River Valley Civilization Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. - the belief in many gods
  2. 8. - an amount of something left over after requirements have been met
  3. 9. system of government where important decisions are made by state officials instead of elected representatives
  4. 10. a large group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
  5. 11. a city with it's surrounding territory forming an independent state
  6. 13. government of a state by immediate divine guidance
  7. 15. - the belief in a single all-powerful god
  8. 18. - emphasizes a never ending battle between good and bad
Down
  1. 1. - a system where people are ranked one above the other
  2. 2. - writing with symbols mainly used in ancient Egypt
  3. 3. - the spread of people from their original homeland
  4. 4. - an ancient ruler in Egypt
  5. 6. - the law of god as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first 5 books of the Hebrew scriptures
  6. 7. - a region along the Nile River
  7. 12. rules for worship and forbid unmoral actions like murder, theft, and adultery
  8. 14. - a line of hereditary rulers of a country
  9. 16. - means the land between the rivers, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  10. 17. the prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools started being made of iron