6th - SS Chapter 3 vocabulary

Question 0

Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money?

Answer 0

Barter

Question 1

A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf?

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent

Question 2

Worship of many gods or deities?

Answer 2

Polytheism

Question 3

Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Irak?

Answer 3

Mesopotamia

Question 4

Brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple?

Answer 4

Ziggurat

Question 5

To supply water to?

Answer 5

Irrigate

Question 6

Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things?

Answer 6

Cuneiform

Question 7

Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory?

Answer 7

City-state

Question 8

State containing several countries or territories?

Answer 8

Empire

Question 9

Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal?

Answer 9

Ally

Question 10

Idea that all members of a society - even the rich and powerful - must obey the law?

Answer 10

Rule of Law

Question 11

Idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture?

Answer 11

Cultural trait

Question 12

A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire?

Answer 12

Hammurabi’s Code

Question 13

Soldiers who fight while riding horses?

Answer 13

Cavalry

Question 14

A permanent army of professional soldiers?

Answer 14

Standing Army

Question 15

Payment or gift to a stronger power?

Answer 15

Tribute

Question 16

Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins?

Answer 16

Currency

Question 17

Grand stone pillar?

Answer 17

Stele

Question 18

Good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country?

Answer 18

Import

Question 19

Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders?

Answer 19

Export

Question 20

Art of steering a ship from place to place?

Answer 20

Navigation

Question 21

Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state?

Answer 21

Colony

Question 22

Spread of cultural traits from one culture to another?

Answer 22

Cultural Diffusion

Question 23

Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound?

Answer 23

Alphabet