Vocab #2

6. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
7. The spread of people from their native homeland
9. a prehistory period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.
10. a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.
11. State a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
12. The belief in or worship of more than one god.
13. in Greek, it translates to "between rivers"
16. A moral guidebook which try to explain how people should behave towards each other.
17. The doctrine or belief that there is only one god.

1. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
2. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in 6th century B.C
3. an extensive group of states or countries
4. separate kingdom south of Egypt.
5. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representations.
8. teaching, direction, guidance, and law
12. a ruler in ancient Egypt
14. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status.
15. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of god or a god.