Question

Vocabulary:

1.Aryans-

2.Barter-

3.Bureaucracy-

4.Caste system-

5.Clan-

6.Cuneiform-

7.Elite-

8.Famine-

9.Kush-

10.monotheistic -

11.Osiris-

12.Polytheistic-

13.Sacred-

14.Subcontinent-

15.Traditional economy-

16.ziggurat-

Answer 1

1. A member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.

2. To trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.

3. Government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.

4. The rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes

5. A group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor.

6. Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.

7. The choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.

8. Extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.

9. Marijuana, formerly specific to a strain of cannabis that originated from the Hindu Kush region.

10. Pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God.

11. The king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown

12. Pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods.

13. Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.

14. A large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent.

15. A system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs.

16. A temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.

Answer 2

1. they are a member of the Aryan people

2. exchange or trade

3. its a governemt system here state officials make the decisions

4. a system where you are divided by your social class (how much money you have etc)

5. a big family or group (usually Scottish)

6. (i have to research this bc i didnt know) denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.

7. superior to everyone, someone or society

8. when you don't have food or a material etc throughout the region

9. (i had to look it up) a variety or strain of the indica subspecies of cannabis plant.

10. a belief that there is one god

11. (looked it up) Osiris is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.

12. a belief that there is more than one god

13. a connection to god or something religious, special in a religous way

14. a distuinguishable part of a continent

15. (looked it up) A traditional economy is a system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs. Tradition guides economic decisions such as production and distribution. Societies with traditional economies depend on agriculture, fishing, hunting, gathering, or some combination of them. They use barter instead of money.

16. a rectangular stepped tower from ancient Mesopotamia

Explanation: im in 7th grade and i havent formally learned these keep that in mind haha