Across
- 5. a form of writing, especially used in ancient Egypt in which symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds
- 8. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 10. the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first 5 books of the Hebrew scriptures
- 11. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in 6th century BC
- 13. a title of an ancient Egyptian king
- 14. a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity
- 16. the dispersion of any people from their original homeland
- 17. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
- 18. the belief/worship or only one god
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- 1. a system of government in which a priest rules in the name of God or a god
- 2. the belief/worship of more than one god
- 3. an independent self-governing country contained completely within the borders of a single city
- 4. a system/organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- 6. a group of territories or people under one ruler
- 7. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
- 9. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met, an excess of production or supply over demand
- 12. a region of Southwest Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, site of several ancient civilizations
- 15. ancient region in northeastern Africa, was home to some of Africa's earliest kingdoms