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Walker-Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia vocabulary
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. | Civilization |
A ( ) is a supply of something that can be used as needed. | Resource |
( ) is a set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and ruled the world. | Religion |
What are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society. | Social Class |
What is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea | Fertile Crescent |
A( ) is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money. | Barter |
Which state is a wide,flat plain in present-day Iraq. | Mesopotamia |
the belief in one god | Polytheism |
Temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers known as what? | Ziggurat |
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 |
An ( ) 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 |
( ) is an idea or way of doing things is is common in a certain culture | Cultural Trait |
A set of laws that governed governed life in Babylonian empire is what code | Hammurabi's Code |
An ( ) is the idea that all members of a society-even the rich and powerful-must obey the law. | Rule of Law |
What is soldiers who fight while riding | Cavalry |
Standing Army | |
Tribute | |
Currency | |
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