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Mesopotamia
Question | Answer |
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What is the system a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services? | An Economy |
What is a complex society that has cities, a well organized government,and workers with specialized job skills? | A Civilization |
What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | A Resource |
What is a set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and ruled the world? | A Religion |
What are a group of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society ? | A Social class |
What is the region of the middle east that stretches in a large crescent shaped curve from the Persian gulf to the Mediterranean sea? | The Fertile crescent |
What is a wide, flat plain in present day Iraq in the fertile crescent.? | Mesopotamia |
What is supplying water to crops? | Irrigate |
What is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory? | A City-State |
What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money? | Barter. |
What is the belief in more than one god. | Polytheism |
What are large temples that are pyramid shape towers found in large Sumerian cities? | Ziggurats |
What is the system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things? | Cunieform |
What is a state containing several countries or territories? | An Empire |
What is a independent state that works with other states to achieve a common goal? | An Ally |
What is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture? | A Cultural trait |
What is a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire? | Hammurabi's Code |
What is the idea that all members of a society must obey the law? | Rule of Law |
What are soldiers that fight while riding horses? | A Cavalry |
What is a permanent army of professional soldiers? | A Standing Army |
What is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger 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? | A Stele |
What is a good service sold within a country that is produced in a different country? | Import |
What is a good or service produced with a country and sold outside the country's borders? | Export |
What is the art of steering a ship from place to place? | Navigation |
What is an area ruled by a distant country? | A 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? | An Alphabet |