Across
- 5. enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing (specifically Egyptian hieroglyphs)
- 8. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 10. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch)
- 11. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
- 13. a ruler in ancient Egypt
- 14. list of religious percepts that, according to various passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and were engraved on two tablets of stone
- 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 doctrine or belief that there is only one God
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- 1. the 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. a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system; home to the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia
- 15. an ancient region of Northeastern Africa, on the Nile, extending from Aswan to Khartoum