Learning Contract #2 Crossword

2. A line of hereditary rulers of a country.
4. The region and the ancient kingdom situated between Aswan and Khartoum in northeast Africa, on the Nile River.
5. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion founded by Zoroaster in sixth century B.C.
6. The belief in or worship of more than one god.
8. An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority (emperor or empress).
11. The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
14. (In Judaism) The law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first fice books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch).
15. A ruler in ancient Egypt.
16. A system where people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
18. An amount left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production.

1. An ancient region located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, one of the places where early civilization developed.
3. The ethical commands of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses.
7. The formal writing system used in ancient Egypt.
9. A prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.
10. The dispersion of Jewish people beyond Israel.
12. A system of government where most of the important decisions are are made by state officials instead of 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.