Across
- 6. - a way of governing where major decisions are made by state leaders
- 8. - a region in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 11. - the time when people started making tools out of iron
- 12. - the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures in Judaism
- 13. - a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in 600 BC
- 16. - a system of writing used by the ancient Egyptians
- 17. - a government where religious leaders lead the nation
- 18. - a set of religious rules from the Bible for Judaism and Christianity
Down
- 1. - the worshipping of multiple gods
- 2. - an independent city and its surrounding land which has its own government
- 3. - the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
- 4. - a system where groups are ranked one according to status or authority.
- 5. - the worshipping of one god
- 7. - a group of countries under one ruler
- 9. - an ancient region along the Nile River used as a route for trading luxury goods
- 10. - a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 14. - excess of a resource
- 15. - a ruler in ancient Egypt