Social Studies Vocab #2

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Across
  1. 6. - a way of governing where major decisions are made by state leaders
  2. 8. - a region in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  3. 11. - the time when people started making tools out of iron
  4. 12. - the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures in Judaism
  5. 13. - a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in 600 BC
  6. 16. - a system of writing used by the ancient Egyptians
  7. 17. - a government where religious leaders lead the nation
  8. 18. - a set of religious rules from the Bible for Judaism and Christianity
Down
  1. 1. - the worshipping of multiple gods
  2. 2. - an independent city and its surrounding land which has its own government
  3. 3. - the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
  4. 4. - a system where groups are ranked one according to status or authority.
  5. 5. - the worshipping of one god
  6. 7. - a group of countries under one ruler
  7. 9. - an ancient region along the Nile River used as a route for trading luxury goods
  8. 10. - a line of hereditary rulers of a country
  9. 14. - excess of a resource
  10. 15. - a ruler in ancient Egypt