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Question | Answer |
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What is an economy? | it 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 skills? | a civilization |
What is a set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and ruled the world? | 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 trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money? | a barter |
What is a wide, flat plain in present day Iraq in the fertile crescent.? | mesopotamia |
What is the belief in more than one god? | polytheism |
What is supplying water to crops? | irrigate |
What are large temples that are pyramid shape towers found in large Sumerian cities? | ziggurat |
What is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding 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? | 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? | cultural trait |
What is a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire? | hammurabi 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? | a 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 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 |
What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | resource |