The Rise of Early Civilizations

What civilizations were in ancient China?

Example of a complex institution

Food surpluses helped bring about what?

What's a ritual?

Ancient cities were centers of

Characteristics of a civilization

The people in the Indus Valley lived in what?

People in early civilizations developed tools like what to make their world more orderly?

Each civilization developed a system of what?

This alphabet was kind of like ours.

Saw the law as a gift from God

In what city was the Indus Valley civilization?

Their cities had central temples called ziggurats.

Egyptian version of a king

Who learned how to embalm bodies as part of their complex beliefs about life after death?

What rivers framed Mesopotamia?

Mesopotamian civilization lasted this long

"in isolation" means

Invented the sail

Example of a complex institution

Meaning of decipher

Characteristics of civilization

What was unique about the early Israelites?

Name 4 early river civilizations.

Surpluses allowed people to do what?

Which civilization was in the region of Mesopotamia?

Food surpluses helped bring about what?