| A | B |
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| artisan | a person who works at a job requiring skill with their hands |
| barter | to exchange goods for goods without money |
| bureaucracy | a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
| civilization | a relatively high level of cultural and technological development |
| civilized | to bring to an advanced and ordered stage of cultural development |
| cultivate | to loosen soil in order to make plants grow |
| fertile | good for plant growth |
| irrigation | the process of supplying land with water by artificial means |
| merchant | a buyer and seller of goods for profit |
| noble | a person of high birth or rank; wealthy person |
| peasant | a small farmer or laborer; lower class |
| priest | person who has authority to conduct religious rites |
| ritual | a religious law or social custom or ceremony |
| sacrifice | offering a god something special or giving up something to gain favor of the god |
| scribe | a learned or educated individual; teacher of reading and writing |
| temple | a building for worship |
| trade | to give something in exchange for another item |
| treaty | an agreement or contract between two or more nations or groups |
