6th - SS Chapter 3 vocabulary Flashcards
(24 cards)
Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money?
Barter
A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf?
Fertile Crescent
Worship of many gods or deities?
Polytheism
Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Irak?
Mesopotamia
Brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple?
Ziggurat
To supply water to?
Irrigate
Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things?
Cuneiform
Independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory?
City-state
State containing several countries or territories?
Empire
Independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal?
Ally
Idea that all members of a society - even the rich and powerful - must obey the law?
Rule of Law
Idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture?
Cultural trait
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire?
Hammurabi’s Code
Soldiers who fight while riding horses?
Cavalry
A permanent army of professional soldiers?
Standing Army
Payment or gift to a stronger power?
Tribute
Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins?
Currency
Grand stone pillar?
Stele
Good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country?
Import
Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders?
Export
Art of steering a ship from place to place?
Navigation
Group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state?
Colony
Spread of cultural traits from one culture to another?
Cultural Diffusion
Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound?
Alphabet
