Vocabulary - Week 3

They way a civilization is organized

• tradition

• colony

• social structure

• bureaucracy

a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government and social structure

• civilization

• ziggurat

• agriculture

• aristocrat

the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes

• cavalry

• artifact

• technology

• citadel

tool used to cultivate soil

• irrigation

• fertilizer

• sprinkler

• plow

present day Sumer

• Iraq

• Iran

• Israel

• Syria

ensures that the people of a society have the food they need to survive

• stable food supply

• religious system

• advances in technology

• a system of government

depicts scenes of war and peace in ancient Sumer

• feudalism

• natural law

• Parthenon

• Standard of Ur

a person who makes money by selling goods

• scribe

• merchant

• trader

• artisan

skilled craftsperson

• trader

• artisan

• scribe

• farmer

person who writes

• scribe

• merchant

• artisan

• priest