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Keywords And There Meaning? Flashcards

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Mesopotamia

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Fertile area in the Middle East; the land between two rivers

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What is irrigation

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A way to spread water across farmland to make it fertile

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What is agricultural surplus?

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When farmers were able to produce more food than they could eat

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What is specialised?

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When someone becomes very good at one thing

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What is a craftsmen

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Someone who makes products with his hands and tools

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What is bartering?

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Exchange goods or services directly for other goods or services

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What are markets?

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Places where people come to barter their products

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What is agricultural-urban society?

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Society in which the majority of people live as farmers, while the minority live in cities

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What is a culture?

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Thinks people think and do? F. E. Religion art clothes and language

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What is civilisation?

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A highly developed society

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What is a pharaoh?

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The king of ancient Egypt

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What are hieroglyphs?

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Egyptian form of writing in which drawings are used instead of letters

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What is the papyrus?

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Plant, the stems of which were used to write on

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What is scribe?

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Someone who writes as his job

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What is a civil servant

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Someone who works for the government

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What are subjects

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People who live in a country ruled by a king

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What is the social pyramid

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Graph to show the differences in power, wealth and/or influence in a country

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What are laws

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Systems or rules

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What are taxes

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Money or goods that people must pay to the king or government

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What is polytheistic

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When people believe in multiple gods

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What are offerings

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Goods that are given as sacrifice in hope of obtaining help from the gods

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What is the book of the dead

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Bundle of texts that were given to the pharaoh when he died. It was used to help him reach the afterlife

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What is Mummified

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Preserved after death the Egyptians did this on purpose

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What is a sarcophagus

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Coffin in the shape of the deceased

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What is monotheistic

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Religion based on one god

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