Learning Contract #2 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. What is the substance of divine revelation to Israel, the Jewish people: God's revealed teaching or guidance for humankind
  2. 7. What is a political system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving as a center and leader of political, economic, and cultural life
  3. 8. What is a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments
  4. 11. What was the period in human history that started between 1200 B.C. and 600 B.C., depending on the region, and followed the Stone Age and Bronze Age
  5. 13. What is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent
  6. 15. What is the list of religious precepts that, according to passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses by Yahweh and engraved on two stone tablets
  7. 17. Who was the political and religious leader of the people and held the titles "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple"
  8. 18. What is a body of nonelected government officials
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  1. 1. What is one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions, having originated in ancient Persia
  2. 3. What is a ranking of positions of authority, often associated with a chain of command and control
  3. 4. What is the exercise of political power of a particular religion claiming to be acting primarily on behalf of a divinity and governing according to its principles and requirements
  4. 5. What does it mean to believe in one god
  5. 6. What does it mean to believe in many gods
  6. 9. What are populations, such as members of an ethnic or religious group, that originated from the same place but dispersed to different locations
  7. 10. What is a family or line of rulers, a succession of sovereigns of a country belonging to a single family or tracing their descent to a common ancestor
  8. 12. What is a region along the Nile river located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt
  9. 14. What is an excess of revenues over expenditures during a certain period of time
  10. 16. What is an aggregate of many separate states or territories under a supreme ruler or oligarchy