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- A permanent army
- standing army
- One exalted or revered as supremely good or powerful, such as a god
- deity
- To take over
- conquer
- A low, flat land formed from fine soil left behind by streams
- alluvial plain
- A high, flat area of land
- plateau
- The governing system in which a king or a queen rules
- monarchy
- The largest and tallest temple in every Sumerian city-state
- ziggurat
- The belief in many gods
- polytheism
- The collection of laws that Hammurabi organized for the people of Babylon to follow
- Code of Hammurabi
- A style of building
- architecture
- A required payment from one ruler to a more powerful ruler
- tribute
- A writing system based on wedge-shaped symbols
- cuneiform
- A river that flows into a larger river
- tributary
- Ways to move water to land
- irrigation
- A city and the farmlands around it
- city-state
- Writings that include information that describes the best way to plant, irrigate land, and care for crops
- almanac
- A person who records things for others
- scribe
- Vast lands and varied people under the control of a single government / the ruler of an empire
- empire/emperor
- A new way of doing things
- innovation
- A group of traders traveling together on a long journey
- caravan
- The right to rule
- authority
- Soil and tiny rocks carried or deposited on the land by floodwaters
- silt