Across
- 3. region and ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan
- 5. a succession of rulers of the same line of descent
- 8. a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron
- 11. the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish Scripture and other sacred literature and oral tradition
- 12. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
- 15. a system of writing that uses pictures instead of words, especially as used in ancient Egypt
- 16. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC
- 17. a group of territories or peoples under one ruler
- 18. in the ancient world, a city and the area around it with an independent government
Down
- 1. a ruler of ancient Egypt
- 2. the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied
- 4. Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
- 6. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
- 7. a system in which people or things are arranged according to their importance
- 9. the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
- 10. the ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Sinai
- 13. A region of western Asia, in what is now Iraq, known as the “cradle of civilization.”
- 14. belief in or worship of more than one god