Quizlet S.S test Chap. 2 VOCAB.

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  1. agriculture: the domestication of plants and animals
  2. city-states: a city and its surrounding farmlands, with its own leaders and government
  3. cultural diffusion: the spread of ideas from one place to others
  4. cuneiform: an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
  5. dikes: an embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods
  6. Euphrates: a river that begins in Turkey, flows through Syria and Iraq, and empties into the Persian Gulf
  7. irrigation: the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas.
  8. labor: productive activity, esp. for the sake of economic gain
  9. Mesopotamia: an ancient land in southwestern Asia; located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  10. monarchy: the system of government in which a king or queen rules
  11. Moses: phrophet and lawgiver who, according to the Bible, led the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity and received the Ten Commandments
  12. Phoenicians: of or relating to ancient Phoenicia or its people, language, or culture
  13. Sargon: warrior who found the Akkadian Empire and so became the first ruler of an empire in the Fertile Crescent
  14. scribe: a person who writes
  15. surplus: an extra supply
  16. Tigris: a river in southwestern Asia; begins in eastern Turkey and joins the Euphrates river
  17. ziggurat: a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians