Vocab #2

3. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.
6. government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
8. the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
10. the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch).
11. a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
13. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
14. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
16. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
17. the belief in only one god

1. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
2. enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing.
4. an independent city — and sometimes its surrounding land — which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries.
5. an ancient region in West Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
7. the belief in many gods
9. a ruler in ancient Egypt
12. ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt)
15. religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, are given by Yahweh to Moses.