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18 Cards in this Set
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What do you call low, flat land formed from fine soils deposited by rivers?
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Alluvial Plain
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What do you call a mixture of bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by a river?
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Silt
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This is the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas.
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Irrigation
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This is a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumarians.
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Ziggurat
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What do you call a city and its surrounding farmland, with its own government?
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City-state
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This is a system of government in which a king or queen rules.
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Monarchy
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This is an extra supply of something.
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Surplus
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This is the name for a person who wrote things for others.
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Scribe
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What do you call a new way of doing things?
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Innovation
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What do you call a collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon?
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Code of Hammurabi
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What do you call a belief in one god?
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Monotheism
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This is a set of laws for responsible behavior, which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses by God.
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Ten Commandments
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What do you call the religion of the Jewish people?
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Judaism
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This is the Jewish scriptures; the first five books of the Bible.
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Torah
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What do you call the act of being forced to live in another place?
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Exile
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What is the spread of ideas from one place to another called?
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Cultural Diffusion
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What is another name for the exchange of one good or service for another?
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Barter
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What do you call an economic system based on money rather than on barter?
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Money Economy
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