River Valley Civilizations, Egypt, Judaism Crossword

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  1. 5. enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing (specifically Egyptian hieroglyphs)
  2. 8. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
  3. 10. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch)
  4. 11. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
  5. 13. a ruler in ancient Egypt
  6. 14. list of religious percepts that, according to various passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and were engraved on two tablets of stone
  7. 16. the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
  8. 17. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
  9. 18. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God
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  1. 1. the system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
  2. 2. the belief in or worship of more than one god
  3. 3. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
  4. 4. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
  5. 6. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress
  6. 7. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
  7. 9. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
  8. 12. a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system; home to the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia
  9. 15. an ancient region of Northeastern Africa, on the Nile, extending from Aswan to Khartoum