Unit 2 Vocabulary Crossword

2. a region of Southwestern Asia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers extending from the mountains of the Eastern Asia Minor to th Persian Gulf.
5. commandments, the ethical Commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Shai.
7. age, the period of human culture characterized by the smelting of iron and its use in industry beginning somewhat before 1000 BC in Western Asia and Egypt.
10. a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders.
12. a family of rulers who rule over a country for a long period of time.
14. and amount that is more than the amount that is needed.
15. written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters.
16. a group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for a long time or in which their ancestors lived.
18. a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected.

1. a religion founded by the Persian prophet Zoroaster.
3. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
4. belief in or worship of more than one God.
6. a group that controls an organization and is divided into different levels.
8. and autonomous State consisting of a City and surrounding territory.
9. a ruler of ancient Egypt.
11. region and ancient Kingdom in northeastern Africa along the Nile in southern Egypt and Northern Sudan.
13. a group of countries or regions that are controlled by one ruler or one government.
17. the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish scripture and other sacred literature and oral tradition.