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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 ? | Resources |
What third common feature of a civilization was an established or a 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 Classes |
What is a religion of the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent shaped curve from the persian gulf to the mediterranean sea ? | Fertile Crescent |
What fertile crescent includes a wide flat plain in present day Iraq ? | Mesopotamia |
What sumerians used technology to or supply water to their crops ? | Irrigate |
What is an independent that includes a city and it's surrounding territory ? | City-State |
What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money ? | Barter |
What's like most ancient peoples the sumerians practiced the belief in more than one god ? | Polytheism |
What in larger sumerian cities temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers known as what ? | Ziggurats |
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 independent state that works with other state to achieve a shared military or political goal ? | Ally |
What is an idea or a way of doing things that is common in a certain culture ? | Cultural Trait |
What is best remembered for his creation of a set of laws that governed life in the babylonian empire ? | Hammurabi's Code |
What established and enforced the idea that all members of a society-even the rich and powerful must obey the laws ? | Rule Of Laws |
What Assyria's armies included some of the world's earliest soldiers who fight while riding horses ? | Cavalry |
What is a permanent army of professional soldiers ? | Standing Army |
What 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 ? | 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 became experts at 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 cultural traits from one reign to another ? | Cultural Diffusion |
What is a small set of letters or symbols each of which stands for a single sound | Alphabet |