1.(Sociology) a human society that has highly developed material and spiritual resources and a complex cultural, political, and legal organization; an advanced state in social development 2.the peoples or nations collectively who have achieved such a state ...
MAP 1.2 The Beginnings of Food Production This map shows early farming sites where the first known production of food occurred in ancient southwest Asia. Learn on MyHistoryLab ANATOLIA Çatal Hüyük Cyprus Abu LEVANTINE CORRIDOR Hureyra Eup / FERTILE CRESCENT Mediterranean Sea MESOPOTAMIA Caspian ...
1. Advanced Cities A city is the center of trade for a larger area (vs. a village or town). Cities provided the continued contact of a large group of people. 2. Specialized Workers An abundant food supply enabled people to focus skills on a specific kind of work (specialization). Ex. ...
over what is nowPakistan, northwest India and eastern Afghanistan, the Indus civilization was the largest—but least known—of the first great urban cultures that also included Egypt and Mesopotamia. Like their contemporaries, the Harappans, named for one of ...
in which theelevation drops about 20 feetand thecross section decreases from 10 square feetnear the feeding spring toa half square footwhere the water emerges. The combination of gravity and sudden constrictioncreates water pressure in the aqueduct, enough to shoot water upwards to aheight of 20...