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10596882114Norte Chico/CaralAlong a thirty mile stretch of that coast and in the nearby interior a series of some twenty five urban centers emerged in an area known as Norte Chico the largest of which was Caral in the Supe River valley0
10596882115Indus Valley civilizationGenerated no palaces temples elaborate graves kings or warrior classes1
10596882116Central Asian/ Oxus civilizationDistinctive cultural style expressed its architecture ceramics burial techniques seals and more though it did not develop a literate culture2
10596882117Olmec civilizationFinal first civilization3
10596882118UrukAncient Mesopotamia largest city4
10596882119Epic of GilgameshInscribe in mythology the deforestation of Mesopotamia5
10596882120Mohenjo daro/ HarappaFeatured largely richly built houses of two or three stories complete with indoor plumbing luxurious bathrooms and private wells6
10596882121Code of HammurabiThe punishments prescribed in the famous code of Hammurabi depended on social status.7
10596882122PatriarchyIdeal regarded men as superior to women and sons preferable to daughters. Men had legal rights and property rights unknown to most women8
10596882123Rise of the stateOrganized around particular cities or larger territories early states were headed almost everywhere by kings who employed a variety of ranked officials exercised a measure of control over society and defended against external enemies9
10596882124EgyptGrew up in river valleys and depended on their rivers to sustain a productive agriculture in otherwise arid lands10
10596882125SumerMesopotamian civilization located in the southern Tigris-Euphrates region known as Sumer was originated in a dozen or more separate and independent city-states11
10596882126PanebIlluminates an underside of Egyptian life rather different from the images of order and harmony portrayed in much of ancient Egyptian art and literature. Paneb was born into a family and village of tomb workers12
10596882127NubiaLocated to the south of Egypt in the Nike Valley not only traded with its more powerful neighbor but also was subject to periodic military intervention and political control from Egypt13

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