History 1
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- City-state
- a self-governing unit made up of a city and it's surrounding villages and farmlands
- Exile
- enforced absence from ones own country
- Polytheism
- belief in more than one god
- Astronomer
- a scientist who observes and studies the universe beyond the earth; including the moon, planets and stars and their motions
- Code
- an organized set of laws or rules
- Scribe
- a professional writer or record keeper; a person whos job is to copy documents and manuscripts
- Pictograph
- a picture that stands for a word or idea; picture writing
- Plateau
- an elavated area of flat land
- Cuneiform
- wedge shaped characters made with a reed stylus and used in writing several ancient languages
- Administrator
- a manager; one who directs a goverment or organization
- Empire
- a ntion and the other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one leadership
- Epic
- a long poem in dignified language that tells the story of a hero
- Plain
- a broad area of flat open land
- Nomad
- one for a group of people who move with their flocks and herds as the seasons change to find water and pasture
- Artisan
- a worker who is skilled in making aparticular product by hand