Vocab #2

5. symbols to represent letters used most in Ancient Egypt
8. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
10. a guidebook to help teach and guide others and is the constitution of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
11. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
13. a ruler in ancient Egypt.
14. rules made by Moses to be a guidebook for rules
16. the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered “in exile” outside Palestine or present-day Israel.
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; an excess of production or supply over demand.
12. ancient civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates river and is in the Fertile Crescent.
15. a region along the Nile river encompassing the area in southern Egypt and northern Sudan