6th Social Studies Chapter 2 vocabulary
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- What do you call low, flat land formed from fine soils deposited by rivers?
- Alluvial Plain
- What do you call a mixture of bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by a river?
- Silt
- This is the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas.
- Irrigation
- This is a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumarians.
- Ziggurat
- What do you call a city and its surrounding farmland, with its own government?
- City-state
- This is a system of government in which a king or queen rules.
- Monarchy
- This is an extra supply of something.
- Surplus
- This is the name for a person who wrote things for others.
- Scribe
- What do you call a new way of doing things?
- Innovation
- What do you call a collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon?
- Code of Hammurabi
- What do you call a belief in one god?
- Monotheism
- This is a set of laws for responsible behavior, which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses by God.
- Ten Commandments
- What do you call the religion of the Jewish people?
- Judaism
- This is the Jewish scriptures; the first five books of the Bible.
- Torah
- What do you call the act of being forced to live in another place?
- Exile
- What is the spread of ideas from one place to another called?
- Cultural Diffusion
- What is another name for the exchange of one good or service for another?
- Barter
- What do you call an economic system based on money rather than on barter?
- Money Economy