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Mesopotamia-Natalie
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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, well organized government and workers with specialized job skills? | Civilization |
What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | Resource |
What is a third common feature of a civilization? | Religion |
What is a fifth feature of early civilizations? | Social Class |
What is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent shaped curve ? | Fertile Crescent |
What is the name of a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money? | Barter |
What is a wide, flat plain present -day Iraq | Mesopotamia |
What is the belief in more than one "God" | Polytheism |
What is system used to supply water to, their crops? | Irrigate |
What is in larger Sumerian cities, temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers? | Ziggurat |
What is an independent state that includes a city and its surround territory? | City-state |
What is the 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 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 is the set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire? | Hammurabi's Code |
What is the idea that all members of a society even the rich and powerful must obey the law? | Rule of Law |
Assryia's armies included some of the worlds earliest _____ | Cavalry |
What is a permanent army of professional soldiers? | 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? | 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 countrys borders? | Export |
What is 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 |