Across
- 2. beliefs about what is right and wrong
- 4. first five books of the Hebrew Bible
- 9. good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
- 11. of law idea that all members of a society—even the rich and powerful—must obey the law
- 12. binding agreement
- 13. state containing several countries or territories
- 14. fairness or fair treatment
- 16. to supply water to
- 17. person believed to be chosen by God to bring truth to the people
- 19. collection of oral teachings and commentaries about the Hebrew Bible and Jewish law
- 21. Crescent a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
- 23. Code a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire
- 25. soldiers who fight while riding horses
- 26. group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state
- 27. an order to do something
Down
- 1. worship of many gods or deities
- 3. army a permanent army of professional soldiers
- 5. separation from one’s homeland
- 6. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- 7. money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins
- 8. wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq
- 10. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
- 14. in the Hebrew Bible, a leader who could rally the Israelites to defend their land
- 15. acting or living in a way that is ethically right and obeys God’s laws
- 18. a set of comments or a recorded discussion about something
- 20. escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
- 22. Jewish communities outside the ancient Jewish homeland, from a Greek word meaning dispersion, or scattering
- 24. small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound