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Location of first cities in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River.
What is the term for the type of leadership in ancient Egypt where the ruler was considered both a king and a god?
Pharoah
What is the term for the form of writing characterized by wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, commonly used in Mesopotamia?
Cuniform
What is the plow?
When works has specific jobs in society.
What is specialization?
Most cities included this vital structure for the safety of the people
What are walls?
A law code written by the king of Babylon
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Due to the inability to decipher written records, what do scholars often rely on to understand Harappan civilization?
artifacts
A material that was unique to the Olmecs in Mesoamerica.
What is Rubber?
A group in society responsible for making fancy products or art-like-things.
Who are Artisans?
This city was know for its exceptional grid-like layout, or Urban planning.
What is Mohenjo-daro or Harappa
A common form of government where one family rules for many generations.
An early form of paper.
What is Papyrus
Who are the The Harappa?
The title given to record keepers in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What are scribes?
Cities in this areas were know as city-states because of their unique and individual governments.
Mesopotamia
What is the bureaucracy?
Those responsible for recording records
Who are Scribes?
The act of carefully planning out a city.
What is Urban Planning
This artisan group in the Harappa civilization primary focused on producing things for children.
Who are the toymakers?
This early civilization continued to stay nomadic and did not build cities.
The Bantu
A government where the ruler has strong ties to religion or is considered a god.
Theocracy
The source that proved the existence of the Shang Dynasty, and the earliest for of Chinese writing
What are oracle bones?
Shang Dynasty made most of their buildings out of this resource commonly found in China.
What is wood
This social group was responsible for reading oracle bones in China and mummifying corpses in Egypt
Who are the priests?