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Mesopotamia Culture
Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a system 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 skills? | Civilization |
| What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | Resource |
| What is a third common feature of a civilization established or a set of beliefs about supernatural powers that created the rule of the world ? | Religion |
| What is a fifth feature of a early civilization that was a system of ...? | Social Class |
| What is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-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 does the Fertile Crescent include? | Mesopotamia |
| What is the belief of more than one god called? | Polytheism |
| What did Sumerians use to supply water to their crops ? | Irrigate |
| What were the larger Sumerian cities, temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers known as ? | Ziggurate |
| 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 a set of laws that governed life in Babylonian empire? | Hammurabi's Code |
| What is the idea that all members of a society - even the rich and powerful- must obey? | Rule of Law |
| What are the solders who fight while riding horses called? | Cavalry |
| What is a permanent army of professional solders called? | Standing Army |
| What is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power called? | Tribute |
| What is money that is used as a medium exchange usually bills or coins called? | Currency |
| What is carved stone slab or pillar that stands on the end called? | Stele |
| What is a good service sold within a country that is produced in another country called? | Import |
| What is a good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's borders called? | Export |
| What is the art of steering a ship place to place called? | Navigation |
| What is an area ruled by a distant country called? | Colony |
| What is the spreading of cultural traits from one region to another called? | Cultural diffusion |
| What is a small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands fr a single sound called? | Alphabet |
| What are groups of rocky rapids called? | Cataract What is a king of |
| What is an area of sediment called? | Delta |
| What are skilled workers | Artisan |
| What is a king of a united Egypt called? | Pharaoh |
| What is a ruling family? | Dynasty |
| What is a system of offices that handle the business of government called? | Bureacracy |
| What is a body preserved by a special process called? | Mummy |
| What is a drawing or symbol that represents a word called? | Hieroglyphic |
| What a material very similar to paper invented by Egyptians called? | Papyrus |
| What is a structure with triangular sides called? | Pyramid |
| What is a statue or another free-standing piece of art made by clay, stone or other materials called? | Sculpture |
| What is the study of a structure of the body and its organs called? | Anatomy |
| What is the buying and selling of goods and services called? | Commerce |
| What is a hard white material made from elephant tusks called? | Ivory |
| What is the dependence by each country or group on the other called? | Interdependence |
| What is one of the world's first alphabets? | Meroitic Script |
| What is a black wood from West Africa, and elephant tusks, valued as a source of ivory, from East and Central Africa called? | Ebony |
| What is an animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in ancient china ? | Oracle Bones |
| Qin the king of the strongest state became?.. | Shi Huangdi |
| What beginning under his rule, hundreds of thousands of laborers worked for hundreds of years to build the?.. | Great Wall |
| Who goes between buyers and people and translate if needed ? | Middlemen |
| Who is known as the king Fuzi? | Confucius |
| Confucius revived older Zhou texts as well as ?... | Book of Documents |
| What is a collection of sayings by Confucius that were written by his students ? | Analects |
| Virtues a sense of humanity respect for the family or modesty are at the core of? | Confucianism |
| What is the belief in finding the "way" or the dao of the universe ? | Daoism |
| Who was the first great teacher of daoism and taught before Confucius ? | Laozi |
| Before the ___ dynasty China suffered through nearly four centuries for unrest ? | Sui Dynasty |
| What dynasty was considered one of the China"s greatest dynasties? | Tang Dynasty |
| What was the first female ruler? | Wu Hou |
| What dynasty united warring groups and established a strong central rule? | Song Dynasty |
| Who was a universal ruler? | Genghis Khan |
| Who conquered both southern China and Burma by 1280? | Kublai Khan |
| What is another name for Mongol dynasty? | Yuan Dynasty |
| What dynasty became the power in 1368? | Ming Dynasty |
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