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| ziggurat | a temple tower of ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories |
| barter | to trade goods or services without the exchange of money |
| empire | A political unit having an extensive territory and ruled by a single supreme authority. |
| Hammurabi's Code | set of 282 laws that formed the basis of the Babylonian legal system |
| colony | A region politically controlled by a distant country |
| monotheism | belief that there is only one god, opposed to many |
| Abraham | founded Judaism |
| scribe | skilled at writing and took down what officials said at meetings and wrote letters |
| Sumer | the first civilization that created bronze and lived in city- states that constantly fought |
| civilization | had cites, complex, institutioins, and were groups of people under a similar government |
| specialized labor | surplus of food and people are able to do form of work other than farming |
| artisians | skilled manual workers' people who work at a craft |
| surplus | having more of a certain thing than is needed |
| cuneiform | system of writing invented by Sumerians |
| complex institutions | organized governments and religions; charachteristic of a civilization |
| irrigation | to supply dry land or crops with water by means of ditches, pipes or streams |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| city-state | a sovereign state consisting of an indepent city and its surrounding territory |
| Sargon | king of Akkad; formed dynasty that lasted 160 years after he died the empire fell |
| Phoenicians | develpoed the first alphabet consisting of 22 symbols |
| literacy | the condition of being about to read or write |
| Saul | the first king of Isreal |
| Covenant | a binding agreement of God's promise to the human race |
| Ten Commandments | the ten injunctions given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai |
| Exodus | book in the Bible |
