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A person who makes things like pots or jewelry by hand
What is an artisan?
A drawing of a bird that stands for the object "bird"
What is a Pictograph
This is the city where the government is located.
What is a Capital
This is the beliefs, art, and way of life of a group of people.
What is Culture
The wheel and the plow are examples of this. Tools and inventions help people do a job.
What is technology
This person makes money by selling goods
What is a merchant
This writing uses wedge shapes pressed into wet clay.
What is a Cuneiform
This early city acted like its own small country.
What is a City-State
A city with many languages and traditions has lots of variety. It is this.
What is Diverse
Farmers dug canals for this to bring river water to dry land
What is Irrigation
In some societies, people were born into one of these groups and could never move to another group.
What are castes
I am trained to write records on clay tablets.
What is a scribe
This is a large area with many groups of people ruled by one leader.
What is an Empire
This is a group of gods that people worship in a religion.
How money is made and spent in a society using resources
What is Economy
This is how money is made and spent in a society. Artisans and merchants both help it grow.
What is an economy
Hammurabi wrote these so everyone knew the rules and the punishments.
What is a code of laws
Persian kings let people they conquered keep their own religions. This word means accepting people who are different.
What is Tolerance
Two cultures mix their religious practices together into one.
What is Syncretism
Farmers made extra food, so some people could become artisans and merchants. This is part of a growing what?
What is Economy
Kings, priests, merchants, farmers, and slaves each had a place in this, the way a civilization organizes its people
What is Social Structure
These are two early kinds of writing. One uses pictures and one uses wedge shapes. Name both.
What are pictographs and cuneiform
This is a society with cities, government, arts, science, and social structure.
What is Civilization
A classroom has students from many countries who speak many languages. This is an example of..
What is Diversity
Irrigation is a type of this, because it is an invention used for a purpose
What is Technology