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- 3. system where people exchange one set of goods or services for another
- 5. agressive emporer of babylon who rebuilt the city and its defenses
- 8. crescent a region of the middle east where cilvilization first arsoe
- 9. persian religious thinker; taught of single eise god, auhra mazda who sturggled with evil and of a judgment day for each person
- 12. the branch of law that deals with offenses agains others, such as robbery, assualt or mudrer
- 14. in ancient mespopotamia a large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a citys chief god or goddess
- 15. system where poepl pay for goods and services though the exchange of some token of agreedupon value, such as a coin
- 17. king of babylon in about 17900 B.C.; codified the laws in his empire
- 18. ruler of Akkad, who conqured sumer in about 2300 B.C. and bulit empire
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- 1. a writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound
- 2. a territory settled and ruled by people from another land
- 4. a mesopotamian narriative poem that includes a story about a flood that destroys the world
- 6. the branch of law that deals with private rights and matters such as business contratcs, property, inheritance, and taxes
- 7. where the worlds first cilvilization arose around 3300 B.C.
- 10. to arrange or set down iin writing
- 11. a system of social ranking
- 13. an area between the tigris and euphrates rivers where the cilization os sumer arose
- 16. the earliest known form of writing; used a series of wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets