Chaper 2 Vocabulary
Sixth Grade.
Terms
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- Conquest
- The defeat of another group.
- Plateau
- An area of high, flat land
- Conquer
- To defeat.
- Dynasty
- A ruling family.
- Scribe
- A professional writer.
- Barter
- To exchange one kind of good or sevice for another.
- Polytheism
- The worship of many gods.
- Fertile
- Rich, as in soil.
- Slavery
- The practice of one person owning another person.
- Empire
- A large territory consisting of many different places uner control of a single ruler.
- Covenent
- An agreement.
- Civillization
- A group of people who have a complex and organized society within a cuture.
- Region
- An area on Earth with common physical features.
- Monotheism
- The worship of only one God.
- City-state
- A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
- Cuneiform
- A form of wedge-shaped writing used in ancient times.
- Plain
- An area of flat land.
- Artisan
- A craftsperson such as a potter or weaver.
- Irrigation
- A system of transporting water to crops.
- Descendant
- A person born later into the same family.
- Society
- An organized community with established rules and traditions.
- Ziggurat
- A huge pyramid-shaped structure cosisting of a series of stacked, rectangular platforms.