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