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10488718854attributes of civilizationOrganized central government Job specilization Complex religions Cities Public works Writing and art0
10488718855Sumer organization comparison to egyptSumer-competing city states Egypt-united under one pharaoh1
10488718856QuipuSystem of noted rope used for accounting purposes (note Chico)2
10488718857Indus valleyPresent day Pakistan birthed civilizations3
10488718858irrigationA way of supplying water to an area of land4
10488718859Aspects of early Indus civilizationElaborately planned cities No palaces or temples Ceremonial bathing Ritual burning Elephant in religious5
104887188603 Chinese dynastiesZhou 700-1000 Shang 1000-1500 Xia 1500-22006
10488718861Son of HeavenTitle of the ruler of China, first known from the Zhou dynasty. It acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth.7
10488718862Oracle BonesWhere the earliest forms of Chinese bones where found used to help gov or predict future8
10488718863Oxus valleyPresent day Afghanistan or Turkmenistan9
10488718864What was the Oxus valley the focus ofEurasian-wide system of intellectual and cultural exchange with Chinese,Indian,and Mesopotamian,civilizations as well as pastoral nomads of the steppe lands and forest dwellers of Siberia10
10488718865OlmecsLocated coast of guel Mexico in Veracruz in southern Mexico11
10488718866Cultural patterns the olmecs developed that they passed down to other Mesopotamian culturesMound building Art styles Urban planning Game with rubber ball Ritual sacrifices Blood letting12
10488718867Uruk20ft walls, 50,000 people in 3000b.c.e, temples of rituals and food distributions crafts people and beuracrats13
10488718868ZigguratStepped pyramid14
10488718869Epic of GilgameshAncient Mesopotamian poem15
10488718870Mohenjo-DaroIndus River, 2000BCE, with 40,000 people16
10488718871HarappaAnother Indus Valley river city17
10488718872Characterize cultural traits of Harappa and mohenjo daroOrganized Clean indoor plumbing18
10488718873Where the institutions of teotihuccan similar or different than those of indusLarger but similar Works apart from wealth Large citadel19
10488718874social heiarchiesUpper class, free commoners (support upper), slaves(sold, work, sacrifice)20
10488718875Code of HammurabiCollection of 282 laws; consequences according to social status21
10488718876Characterization of slavery in Mesopotamia egypt and Greek and Roman societyM Many slaves and they where militarized E Fewer slaves women had rights to own slaves GR slaves much more common than Indian and Chinese culture22
10488718877Jobs and social roles of women in ancient societiesJobs Raising kids slaves and concubines Social roles Mother,wife,controlled sexuality23
10488718878IshtarGoddess in Mesopotamia (not replaced by male god)24
10488718879HatashepsutEgyptian queen depicted with beard25
10488718880Consensual and coercive aspects of ancient societiesConsensual aspects Kings gave gifts Coercive aspects Marriage, hemorabi, sacrifices26
10488718881scribea person who writes things down27
10488718882Summarize chartSumer- cuneiform, Records of economic transactions, first written language Egypt-hieroglyphs, every day use Andes-Kiku, accounting maybe used to express words, no written language Indus-pictures representing sounds in words, marking merchandise, undecifierd China-Oracle bones script, government or predicting future, where we get contemporary Chinese characters Olmec-signs that represents sounds, recorded battles, shamans, rulers, calendars were highly accurate28
10488718883Qin Shihuangdi1st emporer of china( controlled writing and readers) killed scholars29
1048871888417of these huge heads have been found in Mexico what was their purposeTo represent royal rulers30
10488718885Purpose of Tikal templesTo commemorate the jaguar31

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