Across
- 2. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 4. a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the confluence of the Blue and White Niles and the first cataract of the Nile
- 5. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
- 6. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
- 8. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
- 11. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
- 14. the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
- 15. a ruler in ancient Egypt
- 16. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
- 18. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
Down
- 1. Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
- 3. a set of ten moral and religious laws given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible
- 7. a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments
- 9. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
- 10. the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
- 12. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
- 13. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
- 17. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.