Social Studies Lesson 6 Review and Vocab

What word best goes with this definition?

The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people's needs and wants.

• Economy

• Siege

• Tribute

What word best goes with this definition?

A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government.

• State

• City

• Country

• Empire

What word best goes with this definition?

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.

• Tribute

• Resource

• Ziggurat

• Technology

What word best goes with this definition?

A collection of written laws and rules.

• Tribute

• Code of laws

• Code of rules

What word best goes with this definition?

A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.

• Siege

• Tribute

• Economy

• Empire

What word best goes with this definition?

A city that is the center of government.

• Empire

• Territory

• Capital

How did the Akkadians change Sumer?

• They substituted their own writing system for Sumerian cuneiform.

• They destroyed the Sumerian irrigation system.

• They conquered the independent city-states and united them.

• They banned the Sumerian religion and all religious practices.

Sargon built the Akkadian Empire by using his

• diplomatic skills.

• military skills.

• economic skills.

• writing skills.

How did Sargon maintain control over his empire?

• He destroyed the walls of many cities to make it harder for people to rebel.

• He replaced disloyal officials with his own men.

• He decreed that his sons would rule after his death.

• all of the above

What did Sargon use to build up his capital city?

• taxes collected from the Akkadian people

• tributes collected from the people he conquered

• his own personal fortune

• riches that he stole from neighboring countries