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The foundation of the empire’s hierarchical structure was the family. A group of interrelated families then formed a calpulli, a sort of neighborhood or guild. The calpullis organized local schools and shrines and took care of the group as a whole. Each calpulli elected a headman to oversee ...
School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China Dorian Q. Fuller College of Humanities & Social Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Haiming Li Institution of Chinese Agricultural Civilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China ...
The raw material that epitomizes Mesopotamian civilization isclay: in the almost exclusively mud-brick architecture and in the number and variety of clay figurines and potteryartifacts, Mesopotamia bears the stamp of clay as does no other civilization, and nowhere in the world but in Mesopotamia an...
of an “ancient Mesopotamian civilization”; but, since the publication of an article by the AssyriologistBenno Landsberger on “Die Eigenbegrifflichkeit der babylonischen Welt” (1926; “The Distinctive Conceptuality of the Babylonian World”), it has become almost a commonplace to call ...
Agricultural overreach along with the inability to adapt to changes in climate has toppled civilizations, from the ancient Mesopotamians to the Mayans [32,33]. 2. The Rise of Organic Farming Organic agriculture arose as an alternative to the conventional farming paradigm, pioneered by early ...
It has been seen above that the area covered by the Indus civilization had a remarkably uniform level of material culture. This suggests a closely knit andintegratedadministration and implies internal trade within the state. Evidence of the actual exportation of objects is not always easy to find...
Agricultural overreach along with the inability to adapt to changes in climate has toppled civilizations, from the ancient Mesopotamians to the Mayans [32,33]. 2. The Rise of Organic Farming Organic agriculture arose as an alternative to the conventional farming paradigm, pioneered by early ...