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| culture that includes certain elements such as a system of writing, cities, and workers with specialized jobs |
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| planned series of ditches to control flooding and to better water land |
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| city and its surrounding country-side |
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| form of government in which one individual ruled as both religious leader and king |
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| Sumerian form of writing using wooden triangular-shaped sticks in teh form of hundreds of different wedge-shaped markings on moist clay tablets |
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| group of lads under one ruler |
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| area formed from soil deposited by a river at its mouth |
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| believing in more than one god |
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| to treat a dead body to protect from decay |
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| huge stone structure that served as an elaborate tomb or monument |
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| ancient form of writing that used signs and symbols |
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| tall plant of the nile valley, used in making a form of paper |
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| one who records information by writing |
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| belief that there is only on god |
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| collective name for scattered Jewish settlements around the world. |
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| one who is wrongly blamed by others |
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| in Judaim and Christianity, a savior sent by god |
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| follower of a specific teacher |
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| to take care of or tend to another's needs |
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| basic religious obligations of Islam |
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| holy wars sponsored by the Catholic church to capture Jerusalem from the Muslims |
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| rekious journey to Makkah that Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetimes if they are able to do so |
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