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20 Cards in this Set
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Civilization |
typically writing system |
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Technology |
Technology |
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Ziggurat |
were a form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient Mesopotamia |
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Government |
is the system by which a state or community is controlled |
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City-state |
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state |
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Monarchy |
a form of government with a monarch at the head |
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Authority |
the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience |
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Merchant |
a businessperson |
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Social class |
based on a social and economic status |
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Scribe |
a person that right books or documents |
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Innovation |
action or process |
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Conquer |
overcome and take control of a place or person |
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Empire |
an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress |
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Emperor |
An emperor (through Old French emperor from Latin: 'imperator') is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm |
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Taxation |
the levying of tax |
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Code of hammurabi |
is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC |
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Equal justice |
under law is a phrase engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. It is also a societal ideal that has influenced the American legal system |
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Assyrians |
From the end of the seventh century BC to the mid-seventh century AD, it survived as a geopolitical entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although the Neo-Assyrian Empire |
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Babylon |
Mesopotamia in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods |
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Sargon the conqueror |
of Akkad (Akkadian Šarru-ukīn or Šarru-kēn; sometimes known as "Sargon the Great") was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire |
