Chapters 2-3 World

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The most favorable environmental condition that prompted the growth of cities was

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Access to fresh water

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As populations increased Mesopotamian cities were obligated to protect the welfare of their citizens bye

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Expanding control to the neighboring agricultural areas

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While sharing the same language and customs relations between the late Mesopotamian cities were

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Degenerated into constant conflict

Front 4

What area of Mesopotamian life deeply influenced both Phoenicians and Hebrews?

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The tradition of writing that enabled both worship and trade

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Compared with earlier communities the high status of males may be the result of

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The relative importance of wealth in a society

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Regarding social stratification, Mesopotamians were...

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Divided into several distinct classes

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Egypt was unified under Menes when he formed a

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Centralize government born of conquests

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Since Egypt had an all-powerful divine ruler rather than inherited nobility the Egyptian ruling class was comprised of

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The military and bureaucrats

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Egyptians engaged in long-distance trade

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Well before unification by Menes

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What was the pattern of the expansion of Bantu culture?

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Intermittently through colonization in regions of agricultural prosperity

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Well Mesopotamia met its primary challenge by decentralizing, Egypt's response was to unify and remain so during most of its history. What was this challenge?

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Efforts to support large-scale agriculture

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Well Mesopotamia met its primary challenge by decentralizing, Egypt's response was to unify and remain so during most of its history. What was this challenge?

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Efforts to support large-scale agriculture

Front 13

Egyptians view the Nile as

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Benevolent source of a prosperous society

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In what way was Egyptian writing less cumbersome than Cuneiform?

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Hieroglyphics are written on papyrus rather than clay tablets