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- 4. the body of laws of a state or nation regulating ordinary private matters, as distinct from laws regulating criminal, political, or military matters.
- 5. 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- 9. The shrivelling of a dead and retained fetus
- 11. government by ecclesiastical rulers.
- 13. a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- 14. the laws of a state or country dealing with criminal offenses and their punishments.
- 16. a tall, aquatic plant, Cyperus papyrus, of the sedge family, native to the Nile valley: the Egyptian subspecies, C. papyrus hadidii, thought to be common in ancient times, now occurs only in several sites.
- 17. a barter economy is a cashless economic system in which services and goods are traded at negotiated rates. Barter-based economies are one of the earliest, predating monetary systems and even recorded history. ... Other examples of alternative economic systems include gift economies, sharing economies and time banks.
- 18. a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group:
- 19. an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
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- 1. government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
- 2. the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
- 3. a high official in certain Muslim countries and caliphates, especially a minister of state
- 6. a ruler in ancient Egypt.
- 7. an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
- 8. a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
- 9. an economy based on the use of money rather than barter as a means of exchange.
- 10. an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- 12. a form of writing, esp as used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds
- 15. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others.