Across
- 3. believing in one god
- 4. an administrative organization that relies on non-elected officials and regular procedures
- 10. in the Persian Empire, stretched from Lydia to Susa
- 12. laws based on strict justice
- 14. land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 16. protector of the kingdom; ruler of a province in the Persian Empire
- 18. a state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
- 19. believing in many gods
Down
- 1. government by a divine authority
- 2. Egyptian form of writing, using pictures and abstract forms
- 3. government by a sovereign ruler, such as a king
- 5. system of writing developed by Sumeria
- 6. a massive stepped tower
- 7. monarch of ancient Egypt
- 8. a process of slowly drying a dead body
- 9. crescent an arc of land
- 11. a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on with the family
- 13. professional soldiers in the Persian Empire that were immediately replaced if they died
- 15. a large political unit or state usually under a single leader
- 17. dominated or ruled by men
