Ch. 2

someone chosen by God to bring a message to people

• caravan

• prophet

• geometric

• rule of law

the belief that there is only one God

• Islam

• Christianity

• monotheism

• Judaism

an area in the desert where there are water and plants

• successor

• pilgrimage

• secular

• oasis

a group of people traveling together across a desert

• caravan

• successor

• oasis

• prophet

a journey undertaken for a religious purpose

• geometric

• prophet

• pilgrimage

• secular

a person who becomes the leader after the previous leader's death

• tryannical

• prophet

• successor

• caravan

having precise, regular shapes

• addition

• geometric

• caravan

• journeyman

not religious

• caravan

• geometric

• secular

• oasis

using power over people in a way that is cruel and unfair

• rule of law

• caravan

• monotheism

• tyrannical

the principle that no one is above the law, not even the highest lawmakers

• prophet

• oasis

• secular

• rule of law