Topic 2 Vocabulary

1. art of steering a ship from place to place
5. small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound.
8. good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders.
9. independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
11. money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins.
13. a permanent army of professional soldiers.
14. group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state.
15. idea that all members of a society – even the rich and powerful – must obey the law.
16. grand stone pillar
17. payment or gift to a stronger power.
19. state containing several countries or territories.
20. independent state consisting of a city and it’s surrounding territory.
21. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
22. a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast East through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf.
23. a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire.

2. to supply water to.
3. spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
4. soldiers who fight while riding horses.
6. worship of many gods or deities.
7. wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present day Iraq.
10. Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things.
12. brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple.
14. idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
18. good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country.