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| Civilization | A centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning. |
| Technology | The skills and knowledge to make products of meet goals. |
| Ziggurat | A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient sumerians. |
| Goverment | An organized system that group use to make law and decisions. |
| City-state | A city and it's surrounding tarmlands, with it's own leaders and goverment. |
| Monarchy | The system of goverment in which a king of queen rules. |
| Authority | The right to command of influence. |
| Surplus | An extra supply. |
| Merchant | A person who sells and buys goods to make a living. |
| Social class | A group that has a particular amount of importance in a society. |
| Scribe | A person who writes. |
| Innovation | A new way of doing thing. |
| Conquer | To take over. |
| Empire | A conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler |
| Emperor | The ruler of an empire. |
| Taxation | The practice of requiring people to pay taxes to support a goverment. |
| Code of Hammurabi | The collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the peolpe of Babylon to follow. |
| Equal justice | Fair treatment under the law. |
| Monotheism | A belief in one God. |
| Covenant | An agreement. |
| Ten Commandments | A set of laws for responsible behavior,which according to the Bible, were given. |
| Judaism | The religion of the Jewish People. |
| Torah | Jewish scriptures; the first five books of the Bible. |
| Colony | A settlement separated from, but under the control of a home country. |
| Cultural diffusion | The spread of ideas from one place to others. |
| Barter | The exchange of one good of service for another. |
| Money economy | An economic system based on money rather than on barter. |
| Sargon | Warrior who founded the akkadian Empire and so became the first ruler of an empire in the Fertile Crescent. |
| Phoenicians | People who developed a system of writing based on symbol that stood for sounds. |
| Mesopotamia | An ancient land in south western Asia, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. |
