Across
- 3. An empire that originated in Northern Mesopotamia and expanded to encompass much of the Near East
- 5. Kingdom in Nubia that adopted hieroglyphics and pyramids, and later conquered Egypt
- 9. Worship of a single God
- 11. Period beginning about 1100BC when iron became the most important material for tools and weapons
Down
- 1. Administrators in the Persian Empire who controlled local government, collected taxes, heard legal cases, and maintained order
- 2. Seafaring people from Canaan who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the Phoenician alphabet
- 4. The sole god in the Jewish religion
- 6. A large empire centered in today's Iran that used force and diplomacy to consolidate its power and that allowed cultural diversity
- 7. The first five books of the Hebrew bible
- 8. An agreement that the Hebrews believed to between them and Yahweh, in which he would consider them his chosen people if they worshipped only him
- 10. Religion based on the ideas of Zororaster that stressed devotion to the god Ahuuramazda alone and that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil