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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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? | Resource |
| What set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and rule the world? | Religion |
| What are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society ? | Social Class |
| What is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large,crescent-shaped curve 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 is wide,flat plain in present-day Iraq? | Mesopotamia |
| What is it called when you believe more than one god? | Polytheism |
| What did the Sumerians used technology to supply water to,their crops? | Irrigate |
| What is pyramid -shaped brick towers known as what? | Ziggurat |
| 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 counties or territories? | Empire |
| What is an independent state that works with others states to achieve a shared military or political goal? | Ally |
| What is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture? | Cultural Trait |
| What was the code's name when a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire? | Hammurabi's Code |
| What was the idea that all members a society-even the rich and powerful- must obey the law? | Rule of Law |
| What was it called when soldiers who fight while riding horses? | Cavalry |
| What is a permanent army of profession soldiers? | Standing Army |
| What is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power? | Tribute |
| What is it called when money that is used as a medium of exchange,usually bills or coins? | Currency |
| What is it called when a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end? | Stele |
| What is called when a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country? | Import |
| What is it called when a a good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's borders? | Export |
| What is it called when the art of steering a ship from place to place? | Navigation |
| What is an area ruled by a distant country? | Colony |
| What is the spreading of cultural traits from one region to another?` | Cultural Diffusion |
| What is a small set of letters or symbols,each of which stands for a single sound? | Alphabet |
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