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19 Cards in this Set
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artisan
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skilled workers who make goods by hand.
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barter
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a way of trading goods and services without money.
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bronze age
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the time when people started using bronze instead of copper to make their tools and weapons.
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civilization
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a complex culture with five characteristics:
1. advances cities 2. specialized workers 3. complex institutions 4. record keeping 5. advances technology |
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cuneiform
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a system of writing invented by scribes meaning, "wedge-shaped."
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institution,
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a ling-lasting pattern of organization in a community.
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irrigation
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to provide water, they dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops.
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scribes
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professional record keepers
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specialization
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the development of skills in a specific kind of work.
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ziggurat
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A pyramid-shaped shaped temple with a thick stone wall surrounding it.
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fertile crescent
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this includes the land facing the Mediterranean sea and a plain that became known as Mesopotamia.
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Mesopotamia
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the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq
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city-state
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each city and the surrounding land it controlled formed a city-state. It functioned as an independent country does today.
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dynasty
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A series of rulers from a single family.
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cultural diffusion
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the sharing of culture
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polytheism
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the belief in one than one god.
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empire
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an empire brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.
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Hammurabi
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the Babylonian empire reached its peak during the reign of Hammurabi. Hammurabi's most enduring legacy is the code of laws he put together.
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What is civilization?
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a way of life that started with farming:
farming>food surplus>settlement>population growth>SPERT |
