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Chapter2 mtynes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | City- state |
| having many gods | Polytheism |
| practice of living the life of a monk | Monotheism |
| a person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routs to provide a steady source of nourishment for those animals | Pastoral nomads |
| an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq | Fertile crescent |
| a massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city | Ziggurats |
| Code of Hammurabi | |
| Zoraster | |
| the pentateuch, being the first of the three divisions of the old testament | torah |
| dominated by men | patriarchal |
| government by divine authority | theocracy |
| not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying | immortals |
| one of the 20 provinces into which Darius divided the Persian Empire | satrapy |
| "protector of the Kingdom," the governor of a province or the Persian Empire under Darius | satrap |
| a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family | dynasty |
| an administrative organization that relies on nonelective officials and regular procedures | bureaucracy |
| "priest-carvings" or "sacred writings," a complex system of writing that used both pictures and morea bstract forms; used by the ancient Egyptians and Mayans | hieroglyphics |
| the most common of the various titles for ancient Egyptian monarchs; the term originally meant "great house" or "palace" | pharaohs |
| a material on which to write, prepared from thin stripes of the pith plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by the ancient egyptians, greeks, and romans | papyrus |