Early Civilizations
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Terms
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- region
- an area with common physical features
- descendant
- a person who is born later to the same family
- barter
- the exchange of goods and services
- irrigation
- method of watering crops
- plain
- an area of flat land
- scribe
- a professional writer
- society
- formed by establishing rules and traditions in an organized community
- covenant
- an agreement
- polytheism
- the worship of many gods
- plateau
- an area of high, flat land
- civilization
- group of people in a complex, organized society
- artisan
- a craftsperson, such as a potter or a weaver
- city-state
- a city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government, villages, and traditions
- fertile
- rich, good for growing
- ziggurat
- a huge pyramid-shaped structure formed from a series of rectangular platforms
- conquer
- to defeat
- dynasty
- the ruling family of an empire
- monotheism
- the worship of one god
- conquest
- the defeat of another group
- empire
- large territory of many places all under one ruler
- slavery
- the practice of one person owning another person
- cuneiform
- wedge-shaped writing formed in wet clay