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Mesopotamia
Question | Answer |
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What is the system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services? | Economy |
What is a complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills? | Civilization |
What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | A resource |
A set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and ruled the world is what? | A religion |
What are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society? | Social classes |
What is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curved from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea? | Fertile Crescent |
What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money? | Barter |
What does the Fertile Crescent include that has a wide and flat plain in present-day Iraq? | Mesopotamia |
What is the belief in more than one god? | Polytheism |
The Sumerians used technology to ________, or supply water to, their crops. | Irrigate |
What are temples that were pyramid-shaped brick towers? | Ziggurats |
What is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory? | City-state |
What is a system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things? | Cuneiform |
What is a state containing several countries or territories? | Empire |
What is an ally? | An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal. |
What is an idea or way of doing things that is common in certain culture? | Cultural Trait |
What is Hammurabi's code? | A set of law that governed life in the Babylonian empire. |
What is the idea that all members of a society, even the rich and powerful, must obey the law? | Rule of Law |
What is cavalry? | Soldiers who fought while riding houses |
What is a standing army? | A permanent of professional soldiers |
What is a payment made to show loyalty to a strong power? | Tribute |
What is money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins? | Currency |
What is a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end? | Stele |
What is a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country? | Import |
What is a good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's border? | Export |
What is the art of steering a ship from place to place? | Navigation |
What is a colony? | An area ruled by a distant country |
What is the spreading of cultural traits from region to another? | Cultural diffusion |
What is a small set letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound? | Alphabet |