Across
- 4. a simple story that explains a moral or religious lesson
- 6. a savior that many Jews believed had been promised by God
- 9. wars fought between rome and carthage
- 11. a person who helps spread the religious teaching of another
- 14. took control of the entire Italian Peninsula
- 15. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
Down
- 1. a ritual by which a person is welcomed into religion
- 2. Held by Carthage during wars
- 3. an account of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
- 5. the action of becoming larger or more extensive
- 7. someone who tries to persuade others to believe in his or her religious teachings
- 8. a war between regions of the same country
- 10. followers of Jesus Christ
- 12. rome sent to fight the Jews
- 13. a high official in ancient rome