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10341668932Norte Chico/Caralstrip of land were Caral was the major city out of twenty-five0
10341668933Indus Valley civilizationhad little indication of political hierarchy or centralized state.1
10341668934Central Asian/ Oxus civilizationeconomically based on irrigation agriculture and stock raising, had a distinctive cultural style2
10341668935Olmec civilizationarose from a series of competing chiefdoms3
10341668936UrukMesopotamia's largest city, with walls more than twenty feet tall and an average population of 50,0004
10341668937Mohenjo Daro/HarappaMohenjo Daro and Harappa are sister cities that were fairly advanced for their time, even including a complex plumbing system5
10341668938Epic of GilgameshThe world's oldest literary masterpiece, it centered about the King of Uruk. The book was made up of a series of adventures that focused around the themes of friendship, loyalty, ambition, and fear of death.6
10341668939Code of HammurabiA collection of 282 laws which were enforced under Hammurabi's Rule. One of the first examples of written law in the ancient civilizations.7
10341668940patriarchyA form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line.8
10341668941rise of the stateA process of centralization that took place in the First Civilizations, growing out of the greater complexity or urban life in recognition of the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership9
10341668942Egypt: "The gift of the Nile"Egypt is often known as "the gift of the Nile" because the region would not have been able to support a significant human population without the Nile's annual inundation, which provided rich silt deposits and made agriculture possible10
10341668943PanebPaneb was an Egyptian criminal who lived around the thirteenth century BCE. Most knowledge about Paneb comes a document which has survived that was written by his archrival, Amennakht.11
10341668944NubiaA civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron working industry by 500 BCE12
10341688539SumerMesopotamian civilization from 3200-2350 BC in the Middle East; organized in separate states; each state was ruled by a king; conflict for resources between the states.13

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