Vocab #2

1. a ruler in ancient Egypt
3. an excess of production or supply over demand
11. a monotheistic pre-Islam religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BCE
12. an ancient region of northeast Africa, on the Nile, extending from Aswan to Khartoum
14. a prehistoric period that followed the bronze age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
16. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of a god
17. the belief in or worship of more than one god

2. a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems
4. the dispersion of any people from their original homeland
5. a region of southwest Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; site of civilization
6. a city that with its surrounding territory forms a state
7. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
8. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme entity
9. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
10. a system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
13. the doctrine or belief that there is only one god
15. the ethical commandments of god given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Sinai
16. the law of god as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures