Chapter 2

2. official residence of a ruler, his family, entourage
5. combination of copper plus Argon/Tin; useful for tools and weapons
7. largest population center in the Americas; Valley of ___
9. agrarian surplus in Europe meant people had to defend their land against neighbors, resulting in constant _______
10. area where rivers overflow & deposit fertile soil
12. world's first complex society
17. home of the gods; symbol of urban identity
18. The Sumerian family is considered what type of hierarchy?
19. state known as the "melting pot"
21. political org that holds authority over a large population and landmass, wider area than a city-state
23. stepped platform
24. urban culture of the Indus River valley
25. it would be biased & incorrect to consider people on the margins of Afro-Eurasian settlement as ________
26. trading stations at the border where urbanites exchanged cultural information
28. means "king as god"; center of Egyptian life
29. large & well defined urban area with dense population
31. sometimes floods from this river would flow into Tigris
32. upholds cult, regulates rituals, mediates among gods, king and society

1. “sacred carving"; pictorial images that carry values of ideas or sounds
3. wedge-shaped writing
4. cursive script of ink on papyrus, pottery, etc
6. fertile areas with water in midst of arid regions
8. distinction between privileged & less privileged
11. political org based on authority of a single large city that controls the surrounding countryside
13. religious movement, often based on worship of particular god(dess)
14. their rituals may have given rise to rituals found in the Shang dynasty
15. area drained by a river
16. division between those living in cities and those living in rural areas
20. used "slash & burn" agricultural technique
22. technology by which water in floodplains & riverines were channeled back to soil for nourishment
27. structure that gives sense of deep continuity; line of hereditary rulers in a country
30. one who wields writing tools