msopotamia vocab
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- colonies
- what is a settlement seperate from, but under the conrol of a home country
- archaeology
- the study of ancient things
- curtral diffusion
- the spreading of new ideas to other places
- taxation
- what does it mean to under pay taxes to support the goverment
- monotheism
- belief in only one god
- New Babylonian Empire
- a large empire in ancient Mesopotamia
- empire
- a conquered land of many people and places goverend by one ruler
- ten commandments
- the rules of god
- barter
- the exchange of one good or service for another
- labor
- doing a job or a task
- social class
- a group that has a particular amount of importance in a society
- Torah
- The first five books of the bible are called
- money economy
- an economic system based on the use of money rather than barter
- alphabet
- a group of characters used to make a language
- civilzation
- A centralized society with a developed form of religion, governing, and learning
- king Hammurabi
- Who was the king of Babylon in about 1750 b.c
- dikes
- a invention used to stop flooding
- agriculture
- raising domesticated plants and animals
- merchants
- people who bought and sold things
- monotheism
- the belief in one god
- covenant
- an agreement
- famine
- when there is no food to eat and starvation occurs
- monarchy
- What is a way of government in which one person has complete conrtal
- Judaism
- the religion of the jewish people
- covenant
- special aggrement