Vocab #2 Learning Contract

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Across
  1. 3. region and ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
  2. 5. a succession of rulers of the same line of descent
  3. 8. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
  4. 11. the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish Scripture and other sacred literature and oral tradition
  5. 12. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
  6. 15. a system of writing that uses pictures instead of words, especially as used in ancient Egypt
  7. 16. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
  8. 17. a group of territories or peoples under one ruler
  9. 18. in the ancient world, a city and the area around it with an independent government
Down
  1. 1. a ruler of ancient Egypt
  2. 2. the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied
  3. 4. Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
  4. 6. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
  5. 7. a system in which people or things are arranged according to their importance
  6. 9. the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
  7. 10. the ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Sinai
  8. 13. A region of western Asia, in what is now Iraq, known as the “cradle of civilization.”
  9. 14. belief in or worship of more than one god