social studies

Question 1

mesopotamia

Answer 1

a region between the tigris and euripides rivers

Question 2

floodplain

Answer 2

flat land bordering the banks of a river

Question 3

silt

Answer 3

fine fertile soil carried by flooding rivers and deposited on the floodplain

Question 4

arid

Answer 4

a type of climate marked by hot summers and little rainfall

Question 5

drought

Answer 5

a prolonged period of dry weather

Question 6

currents

Answer 6

concentrated flowing of water, as in a river

Question 7

swell

Answer 7

to increase in level or volume, as in a flooding river

Question 8

irrigation

Answer 8

the watering of dry land by a system of ditches or pipes

Question 9

surplus

Answer 9

an extra amount of a good or produce

Question 10

levee

Answer 10

an earthen wall built to hold back the floodwaters of a river

Question 11

civilization

Answer 11

an advanced way of life based on cites

Question 12

city-state

Answer 12

a self governing city and the land surrounding it

Question 13

ziggurat

Answer 13

a mud brick building with a temple on the top

Question 14

polytheism

Answer 14

the belief in many gods goddess and spirits

Question 15

king

Answer 15

all powerful ruler of a country or city-stats

Question 16

pictographs

Answer 16

symbols that represent words

Question 17

cuneiform

Answer 17

written language invented by the sumerians

Question 18

scribes

Answer 18

specialists who could read and write

Question 19

sumer

Answer 19

a region in southern mesopotamia where first civilizations developed

Question 20

empire

Answer 20

a region of land and people united under one government

Question 21

fertile crescent

Answer 21

region that stretches from sinai to the persian gulf

Question 22

code of law

Answer 22

an organized set of laws for a city-state or an empire

Question 23

justice

Answer 23

fair treatment under the law of a city-state or empire

Question 24

tribute

Answer 24

a kind of tax paid by a group of people who were conquered to the people who conquered them

Question 25

exile

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to send away a person or group of people from one place to the next

Question 26

toleration

Answer 26

a willingness to allow people to keep their beliefs and traditions

Question 27

provinces

Answer 27

political regions that are part of an empire

Question 28

satraps

Answer 28

governor of provinces in the Persian empire

Question 29

royal road

Answer 29

a persian road for government purposes stretching from sardis to susa in Darius