Social Studies Ch.4 vocabulary
social studies ch.4 vocabulary
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- tribute
- n. a payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection
- Royal Road
- n. a road for government use built by the ancient Persian ruler Darius, which helped unite the empire
- code of law
- n. a set of written rules for people to obey
- exile
- n. forced removal from one's homeland
- Hammurabi
- n. the ruler of the Babylonian Empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C., who expanded the empire
- toleration
- n. the practice of allowing people to keep their customs and belief
- province
- n. a subdivision of an empire or country
- empire
- n. a group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme ruler
- justice
- n. fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- n. an artificial mountain covered with trees and plants, built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife. The gardens are one of the Seven Wonders of the World
- Anatolia
- n. the peninsula between the Mediterranean and Black seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey: also called Asia Minor
- Fertile Crescent
- n. area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
- satrap
- n. the governor of a province in the ancient Persian Empire
- emperor
- n. the ruler of an empire