Ch2 Voacb Quiz For 10/14/15

Question 1

Fertile crescent

Answer 1

Region of the middle east in which civilization first arose

Question 2

Codify

Answer 2

To arrange or set down writing

Question 3

Criminal law

Answer 3

Branch of law that deals with offenses against others

Question 4

Civil law

Answer 4

Branch of law that deals with private rights and matters

Question 5

Satrap

Answer 5

A provincial governor in the ancient persian empire

Question 6

Barter economy

Answer 6

Economic system in which one sets of goods or services in exchange for something else

Question 7

Money economy

Answer 7

Economic system in which goods or services are paid with something that has value

Question 8

Alphabet

Answer 8

Writing system in which each symbol represents a single sound

Question 9

Cataract

Answer 9

Waterfall

Question 10

Vizer

Answer 10

Chief minister who supervises the buisness of government in ancient egypt

Question 11

Ideogram

Answer 11

Pictures that symbolize an idea or action

Question 12

Demotic

Answer 12

Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by regular people

Question 13

Covenant

Answer 13

A binding agreement that god made with abraham

Question 14

Patriarchal

Answer 14

Relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority

Question 15

Sabbath

Answer 15

A holy day for rest and worship

Question 16

Prophets

Answer 16

Spirtual leader who interprets gods will exabraham

Question 17

Ethics

Answer 17

Moral standards of the jews beyond their historic home land

Question 18

Cuneifrom

Answer 18

A system of writing that used wedge shaped marks