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| 199866851 | city states | a state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside; basic units of Sumerian civilization; occurred when cities expanded; consisted of the city, the surrounding mud brick wall, and the surrounding farmland | 0 | |
| 199866852 | Akkadians | people to the north of Sumerian cities; spoke Semitic language; leader was Sargon; overran Sumer to create their empire | 1 | |
| 199866853 | Hammurabi | leader of Babylon; created Mesopotamian kingdom out of Sumer and Akkad | 2 | |
| 199866854 | river valley | depression with predominant extent in one direction; very deep- called canyon or gorge | 3 | |
| 199866855 | semitic | family of languages (includes Phoenician and Akkadian); main subgroup of Afro-Asiatic family; people of this kind were descendant of Shem | 4 | |
| 199866856 | pharaoh | ancient Egyptian king or ruler; "the Great House"; considered both king and god | 5 | |
| 199866857 | Kush | ancient kingdom; once know as Nubia; contrlled by Egypt for a bit; bronze weapons; run out by the Assyrians; pushed out again by Axums; located on Nile River; south of ancient Egypt; land of the bow because their archers were expert and fierce; gold, ivory, incense, iron ore | 6 | |
| 199866858 | Indus River | site of an early civilization; Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir/Pakistan/Arabian Sea; home to Mohenjo Daro | 7 | |
| 199866859 | Mohenjo Daro | ancient city of the civilization of the Indus River; now Pakistan; largest city/settlement in Indus Valley civilization of India; along with Harappa, major urban complex of the Harappan civilization | 8 | |
| 199866860 | citadels | a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city; a stronghold or fortified place | 9 | |
| 199866861 | Yellow River | second largest river in China; the cradle of Chinese civilization; floods a lot; the first Chinese civilizations were located here | 10 | |
| 199866862 | Shang | imperial dynasty ruling China from 16-11 cent BC; earliest Chinese dynasty; ancestor worship, divination through oracle bones; have archaeological records of writing; technology was a combination of Bronze Age and Iron Age elements | 11 | |
| 199866863 | Harappa | an ancient city of the Indus Valley civilization; Pakistan; discovered 1920; existed 2600-1700 BC; big civilization like Mohenjo Daro | 12 | |
| 199866864 | bureaucracy | system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives; a system involving many rules and procedures and several levels of management and relies on written communication | 13 | |
| 199866865 | oracles | a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity; China->shamans or priests foretold the future through interpretations of animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing | 14 | |
| 199866866 | Phoenicians | Semitic people of Phoenicia and its colonies; prospered from trade and manufacturing; sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC; dominated trade; coast of Lebanon and shores of Mediterranean | 15 |
