Across
- 6. An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
- 8. The law of God as revealed 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 B.C.
- 14. A line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 15. The belief in or worship of more than one god
- 16. Dispersion of Jewish beyond Israel
- 18. The belief that there is only one god
Down
- 1. A system of government in which most of the imporntant decisions ore made by state officials rather than elected representatives
- 2. The rules given to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai
- 3. A form of writing in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds.
- 4. An ancient region of present day Iraq, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates River
- 5. A ruler in ancient Egypt
- 7. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of god
- 9. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
- 10. A system in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- 12. An ancient region south of the Egyptian civilization
- 13. An excess of production over demand
- 17. A prehistoric period after the Bronze Age when weapons and tools came to be made out of iron