Chapter 2

Question 1

Civilization

Answer 1

Groups of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture

Question 2

Fertile Crescent

Answer 2

A curved-shaped area of rich, fertile soil located between 2 rivers

Question 3

Plain

Answer 3

Area of flat land

Question 4

Mesopotamia

Answer 4

Area between two rivers

Question 5

Plateau

Answer 5

Area of high flat land

Question 6

Irrigation

Answer 6

Method for watering crops by digging ditches or trenches that brought water from rivers to foods

Question 7

City-state

Answer 7

City that is an individual unit with its own form of government and traditions

Question 8

Ziggurat

Answer 8

An impressive temple built of stacked rectangular platforms that formed a pyramid-type structure. It was believed to link the heavens and Earth.

Question 9

Polytheism

Answer 9

Worship of many gods

Question 10

Monotheism

Answer 10

The worship of only one God

Question 11

Cunieform

Answer 11

Wedge-shaped writing invented by the Sumerians

Question 12

Divine kingship

Answer 12

The belief that the right to rule was god-given

Question 13

Conquered

Answer 13

Defeated

Question 14

Dynasty

Answer 14

A ruling family

Question 15

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 15

Set of 282 laws that tried to ensure justice, protect / control the people of Babylon. Punishments often fit the crime by demanding an eye for an eye.

Question 16

Conquest

Answer 16

Defeat

Question 17

Descendants

Answer 17

People who are born later into the same family.

Question 18

artisan

Answer 18

a skilled craftsperson such as a potter or weaver

Question 19

barter

Answer 19

exchange one kind of good or service for another

Question 20

covenant

Answer 20

an agreement

Question 21

empire

Answer 21

a large territory of many places under the control of a single ruler

Question 22

region

Answer 22

area on earth with common physical features

Question 23

scribe

Answer 23

professional writer

Question 24

slavery

Answer 24

the practice of one person owning another person

Question 25

society

Answer 25

an organized community with established rules and traditions

Question 26

synogogue

Answer 26

a Jewish place of worship

Question 27

Summerians

Answer 27

built ziggurats and walls around their cities, made mud-brick houses, developed writing, religion and technology, like the wheel

Question 28

Assyrians

Answer 28

placed a high value on war and conquest; known as sometimes merciless warriors