SS Vocab 2 Crossword

5. a complex writing system from ancient Egypt that uses pictorial symbols to represent sounds, words, or concepts.
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. The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical moral and religious principles given by God.
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.

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. a historical region and one of the world's earliest cradles of civilization, located in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now the Middle East, including modern-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Kuwait.
15. an ancient region of northeastern Africa, encompassing parts of what are now southern Egypt and northern Sudan, centered along the Nile River.