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Terms
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- civilization
- a centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing and learning
- technology
- the skills and knowledge to make prouducts or meet goals
- ziggurat
- a huge mud brick temple built by the ancient summerians
- government
- an organized system that groups use to make laws and decisions
- city-state
- a city and its surrounding farmlands, with its own leaders and government
- monarchy
- a system in government in which one person has complete authority
- authority
- the right to command or influence
- surplus
- an extra supply
- merchants
- a person who buys and sells for a living
- social classes
- groups with different levels of importance
- scribe
- a person who writes
- innovation
- a new way of doing things
- conquer
- take over
- empire
- a conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler
- emperor
- the ruler of an empire
- taxation
- the practice of requiring people to pay taxes to support a government
- code of Hammurabi
- the collection of laws compiled by Hammurabi for the people of babylon to follow
- equal justice
- fair treatment under the law
- monotheism
- a belief in one god
- covenant
- an agreement
- Ten Commandments
- a set of laws for responsible behavior,which,according to the bible, were given to Moses by God
- Judaism
- the religion of the Jewish people
- Torah
- Jewish scriptures; the first five books of the bible
- colony
- a settlement seperate from, but under the control of,a home country
- cultural diffusion
- the spread of ideas from one place to others
- barter
- the exchange of one good or service for another
- money economy
- an economic system based on the use of money rather than on barter