Across
- 3. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God
- 6. more than what is needed or used; excess
- 9. a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles
- 10. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
- 11. formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt
- 13. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
- 14. the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures
- 16. set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity
- 17. an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another
- 18. system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Down
- 1. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
- 2. the belief in or worship of more than one god
- 4. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 5. the dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel
- 7. a ruler in ancient Egypt
- 8. historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent
- 12. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
- 15. a sovereign state made up of several territories and peoples subject to a single ruling authority