Culture vocabulary

A person skilled at making things by hand

• silt

• ritual

• artisan

A group of different lans and people governed by one ruler

• empire

• government

• religion

religious ceremony

• tribute

• cuneiform

• ritual

belief in only one god

• social class

• monotheism

• culture

fine particles of fertile soil

• artisan

• scribe

• silt

a tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection

• cuneiform

• tribute

• culture

the belief in and worship of one or more gods and goddesses

• city-state

• religion

• ritual

a belief in many gods and goddesses

• ploytheism

• tribute

• ritual

a self-governing city, often with surrounding lands and villages

• ziggurat

• empire

• city-state

a type of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings

• cuneiform

• scribe

• polytheism