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Vocabulary
Mrs. Ringpfeil's Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached |
| city-state | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies |
| empire | a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine or Roman Empire |
| culture | the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc |
| ziggurats | (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting a lot of terraces |
| cuneiform | having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped |
| irrigation | the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops |
| code of laws | a code of law is an organized written statement of the rules of a society or nation |
| social pyramid | a way of illustrating the social organization of a particular society |
| artisan | a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson |
| merchant | a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader |
| scribe | a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing |
| patriarchal | of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc. |
| Sumer | an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians... |
| akkadians | the eastern Semitic language, now extinct, of Assyria and Babylonia, written with a cuneiform script |
| Sargon | flourished c2300 b.c, Mesopotamian ruler: founder of Akkadian kingdom |
| Hammurabi | 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia |
| Babylon | an ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire |
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