Vocab 2

3. Writing consisting of hieroglyphs(stylized pictures of an object representing a word, or syllable, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.)
6. Doctrine or belief that there is only one god.
7. Monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Ziroaster in the 6th century B.C.
8. Ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accountsto Moses by Voice and by writing on stone tables on Mount Sinai.
12. A region of southwest Asia in the Tigris and Euphrates river system that benefitted from the area's climate and geography to host the beginnings of human civilization.
14. A ruler in ancient Egypt
15. Law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first 5 books of the Hebrew scriptures.
16. A region in southern Egypt and Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea. It is a kingdom.
18. System of government in which priests rule in the name of a God.

1. System of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
2. Dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel. Or, dispersion of any people from their original homeland.
4. System or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
5. The belief in or worship of more than one god.
9. Line of hereditary rulers of a country.
10. An extensive group of states or countries under a single authority, formerly, especially an emperor or empress.
11. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
13. Prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.
17. City that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.