Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Vocabulary

Question 1

A system by which goods & services are paid for though exchange of a token of agreed value is?

Accepted Answer

Money Economy

Question 2

What is the practice of preserving the bodies of the dead?

Accepted Answer

Mummification

Question 3

Which word is a spread of ideas, customs and technologies from one people to another?

Accepted Answer

Cultural Diffusion

Question 4

Which is a large landmass that juts out from a continent?

Accepted Answer

Subcontinent

Question 5

Which is a system of ranking people within a society?

Accepted Answer

Hierarchy

Question 6

What plant grows along banks of the Nile and was used by Egyptians to make paper-like material?

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 7

Which of these words means extra or excess?

Accepted Answer

Surplus

Question 8

Which is a system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for another?

Accepted Answer

Barter Economy

Question 9

Which of these words means a belief in many gods?

Accepted Answer

Polytheism

Question 10

Which of these is a ruling family?

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Dynasty

Question 11

Which is a triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers?

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Delta

Question 12

What is a complex, highly organized social order?

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Civilization

Question 13

System of government where local lords governed lands but owed military service to greater lord

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Feudalism

Question 14

Which word means "arrange and set down in writing"?

Accepted Answer

Codify

Question 15

What is a pyramid-temple dedicated to the chief god/goddess of an ancient Sumerian city-state?

Accepted Answer

Ziggurat

Question 16

Which of these words means to decode?

Accepted Answer

Decipher

Question 17

Which of these is a political unit made up of a city and the surrounding lands?

Accepted Answer

City-State

Question 18

In traditional Indian society, it's the unchangeable social group into which a person is born:

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Caste

Question 19

Which of these is the title of the rulers of ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Pharaoh

Question 20

Which of these is a specially trained person who knew how to read, write, and keep records?

Accepted Answer

Scribe

Question 21

It is a fancy or stylized handwriting.

Accepted Answer

Calligraphy

Question 22

Which of these words means a belief in only one god?

Accepted Answer

Monotheism

Question 23

Which word describes a form of picture writing developed by the ancient Egyptians?

Accepted Answer

Heiroglyphics

Question 24

Which is the wedge shaped writing of the ancient Sumerians?

Accepted Answer

Cuneiform

Question 25

What are letters that represent spoken sounds?

Accepted Answer

Alphabet

Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Vocabulary

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