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Harappa Indus; one of largest cities, capital scribe Mesopotamia and Egypt; person who learned to read and write Mandate of Heaven China; belief that heaven entrusts or withdraws a dynasty's right to govern polytheistic belief in more than one god pharaoh Egypt; half-man, half-god; ruler of Egypt Hammurabi Mesopotamia; developed first system of laws, based on an eye for an eye system pyramid Egypt; tomb for pharaohs, only built in Old Kingdom Hyksos Egypt; invaders of Egypt, eventually took over Shudra Indus; lowest class in the Caste System; servants Sargon the First Mesopotamia; from Akkad, created the first empire by uniting Mesopotamian city-states prehistory the period beginning when people first appeared and ending when writing developed specialization development of occupations cultural diffusion the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another; occurred through migration, trade, and war ziggurat Mesopotamia; temple in center of city, where priests prayed to gods Dynastic Cycle China; cycle when one dynasty falls and a new one rises up to replace it Demotic Egypt; form of writing not used for religious purposes Deity Above China; supreme deity, had authority over the human world; had 6 lesser deities underneath: sun, moon, earth, rain, wind, and the 6 clouds oracle bones China; a group of inscribed bones that were found from the Shang Dynasty; a question was written on them and then they were thrown in the fire and the way it cracked would be interpreted as the answer from the gods Neolithic Revolution the beginning of farming; termed by historians civilization a form of human culture marked by urbanism and writing Warring States China; period of time in Eastern Zhou with much war and instability cuneiform Mesopotamia; first form of writing, used wedge shapes Vedas Indus; sacred text of the ancient Aryan invaders of India; Rig Vedas are oldest materials in the vedas Shi China; scholar bureaucrats, included: nobility, warriors, landlords, merchants, and commoners