Ch. 4 Lesson 1 Practice Vocab

fine particles of fertile soil

• tribute
• ziggurat
• silt
• province

a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

• caravan
• irrigation
• astronomer
• city-state

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• city-state
• province
• ziggurat
• caravan

a belief in more than one god

• tribute
• polytheism
• ziggurat
• monotheism

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top in mesopotamia

• pyramid
• temple
• ziggurat
• scribe

writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

• cuneiform
• scribe
• heiroglyphics
• dots and dashes

a person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper

• farmer
• artisan
• scribe
• cuneiform

a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler

• city-state
• provence
• empire
• country

payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender; payment to a ruler as a sign of submission or for protection

• barter
• trade
• tribute
• purchase

a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire

• province
• city-state
• ziggurat
• tribute