Vocab #2

5. A writing system that uses pictures & symbols instead of letters and words. Was a formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
8. A line of hereditary rulers of a country.
10. (In Judaism) The law of god as reveled to moses and recoreded in the first 5 books of the Hebrew scriptures.
11. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
13. A ruler of a kingdom in ancient Egypt.
14. A set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity
16. The dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel. (Also), A population that is scattered across regions which are seperate from its geographic place of origin.
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.
12. A region of Western Asia, in what is now Iraq, known as the "cradle of civilization". Western writing first developed there, done with sticks on clay tablets.
15. A region in southern Egypt and the Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea. Known for its rich deposits of gold.