Vocab #2

2. The ten rules given to Moses by God that dictates how humans should live with one another
3. A nation that rules many territories and is ruled by a single authority figure
8. A succesion of rulers of the same line of descent
11. One of the worlds oldest monotheistic religions, having originated in ancient Persia
14. A body of non-elected Government Officials
15. A large group of people who share a cultural and religional origin but are living away from their traditional homeland
17. Government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guide
18. The haeds of state and religious leaders of their people

1. The belief and worship of multiple gods
4. A religious belief that maintains that there is only one god
5. A characterused in a system of pictoral writing, particulalry that form used on ancient monuments
6. An independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory
7. A period in human history that started between 1200 B.C. and 600 B.C. and was followed by the Bronze Age
9. A region along the Nile river located in what today Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt
10. The law or teachings of Judaism
12. The amount of a resource that goes over the amount that is activly used
13. to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
16. a ranking of positions of authority, often associated with a chain of command and control