Vocab #2

1. An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, ruled by an emperor or empress
3. A city that with its surronding territory forms an independent state
4. A line of hereditary rulers of a country
8. an ancient region of NE Africa, on the nile, extending from Asuan to Khartoum
12. A monotheistic pre-islamic religion or ancient Perisa founded by Zorcaster in the 6th century BC
13. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of Hebrew scriptures
15. A system of organization in which people or groups are ranked on above the other according to status or authority
16. A prehistoric period that followed the Bronze age, when weapons and tools came to be made of Iron
17. Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing
18. An amount of something left over when requierments have been met

2. An ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the Northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the Southeast by the Arabian Plateau
5. The ethical commandments of God given according to the biblical accounts to Moses by voice and writtenon stone tablets on Mount Sinai
6. The dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Isreal
7. A system of government in which mot of the important decisions are made by state office rather then by elected representatives
9. A ruler in acient Egypt
10. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
11. The belief in or worship of more then one god
14. The doctrine or belief that there is only one God