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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
| Definition | Vocabulary Word |
|---|---|
| a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside | City-State |
| the belief of many gods | Polytheism |
| the belief of only one god | Monotheism |
| a person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routes to provide a steady source of nourishment for those animals | Pastoral Nomads |
| a agricultural region located near in the Middle and Near East | Fertile Crescent |
| a massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city | Ziggurats |
| a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters | Code of Hammurabi |
| A person who believes in Ormazd in the context of a universal struggle between the forces of light and darkness | Zoraster |
| law or intruction | Torah |
| dominated by men | Patriarchal |
| government by divine authority | Theocracy |
| undying; everlasting | Immortals |
| one of the 20 provinces into which Darius divided the Persian Empire | Satrapy |
| "protector of the Kingdom," the governor of a province (satrapy) of the Persian Empire under Darius | Satrap |
| a family of rulers who 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 more abstract 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 used to write on made from a plant | Papyrus |