River Valley Vocabulary

Because early civilizations did not have money, traders and merchants worked on a __________ system.

• Trade Route

• Artisan

• Barter

• Decipher

People of Mesopotamia built a ________ to protect their homes from the flooding Tigris River.

• Levee

• Scribe

• Silt

• Barter

Profitable ___________ developed as civilizations made trails and paths for merchants to exchange surplus goods and crops.

• Levee

• Decipher

• Artisan

• Trade Route

Egyptian priests would __________ the pharaoh’s body with natron salts to keep it from decaying.

• Empire

• Embalm

• Nobility

• Trade Route

After years of training, a _______________ took a job in government to write down tax records or copy legal documents.

• Scribe

• Silt

• Barter

• Embalm

__________ such as potters, weaver, carpenters, and stonemasons provided skills and goods to make the Egyptian economy grow.

• Scribe

• Levee

• Decipher

• Artisan

By conquering many separate city-states, Sargon of Akkadia put together the first __________.

• Nobility

• Empire

• Trade Route

• Artisan

As the Nile dumps __________ at its opening to the Mediterranean Sea, a delta formed that was the richest soil in the empire.

• Barter

• Embalm

• Silt

• Empire

Little is known about the earliest settlers of the Indus River because historians have not been able to __________ their written language.

• Levee

• Scribe

• Silt

• Decipher

The __________ of early civilizations were usually rulers and religious leaders.

• Trade Route

• Nobility

• Empire

• Barter