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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is economy? | is a system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services. |
| What is a complex society that has cities,a well-organized government,and workers with specialized job skill? | Civilization |
| What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | Resources |
| What is 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 region of the middle east that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curve from the persian gulf to the mediterranean Sea? | Fretile crescent |
| What is a trading system in which people exchange goods without using money? | Barter |
| The fertile crescent includes what that is a wide ,flat plain in present-day iraq / | Mesopotamia |
| Like most ancient peoples,the sumerians practiced what in the belief in more than one god? | Polytheism |
| Or supply water to,their crops? | Irrigate |
| In larger sumerians cities,temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers know as? | ziggurats |
| 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 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 |
| A 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 |
| Soldiers who fight while riding horses ? | cavalry |
| What is a permanent army of professional soldiers? | standing army |
| What is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power? | tribute |