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  1. 2. an agreement which brings about a relationship of commitment between God and his people. The Jewish faith is based on the biblical covenants made with Abraham, Moses, and David.
  2. 5. denoting any or all of the religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that revere Abraham, the Biblical patriarch.
  3. 6. the first female ruler of ancient Egypt
  4. 8. the great leader, lawgiver, and prophet of the ancient Israelites (Hebrews
  5. 9. hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
  6. 13. a member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.
  7. 16. (in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch).
  8. 17. an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey
  9. 19. the act or means of enlightening
  10. 21. a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum:
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  1. 1. a King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa.
  2. 3. an inhabitant of Minoan Crete or member of the Minoan people.
  3. 4. Historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, comprising parts
  4. 7. founder of Buddhism
  5. 10. ancient region lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean: the land promised by God to Abraham.
  6. 11. the state in which many people from the jewish religion or from
  7. 12. an act, statement, or gift that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration.
  8. 14. the fourth son of Jacob and Leah.
  9. 15. a nontheistic religion founded in India in the 6th century BC as a reaction against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism, and still practiced there. The Jain religion teaches salvation by perfection through successive lives, and noninjury to living creatures, and is noted for its ascetics.
  10. 18. a ruined city on N central Crete; capital of the ancient Minoan civilization.
  11. 20. (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.