Vocab #2

5. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
8. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
9. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
10. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
11. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
13. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
15. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
18. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.

1. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
2. written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters.
3. the dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel.
4. a title of an ancient Egyptian king
6. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures
7. a region in southern Egypt and the Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile
12. the precepts spoken by God to Israel, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.
14. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
16. an ancient region in Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
17. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.