Chapter 2 Unit Vocab
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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 or
- ziggurat
- early Summarian skyscrapers and huge mud-brick temples. The highes level was a shrine for the cities god.
- government
- an organized system that groups use to make laws and decisions. run by a small group of leaders chosen by the group
- city-state
- a city or village with farmland around it. each had it's own leader and government
- monarchy
- a government in which one person had complete authority to rule in peacetime and to lead soliders in time of war
- authority
- a right
- surplus
- an extra supply
- merchants
- people who bought and sold goods for a living.
- social classes
- groups with different levels of importance.
- scribe
- a person who wrote things for others and kept records, wrote letters for others, and copied stories and songs.
- innovations
- new ways of doing things
- conquer
- to take over
- empire
- a conquered land of many people and places goverened by one ruler