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1. Politically, both Hawai'i and Tahiti were highly ______________ ________________.
2. The Mississippian tradition, with its powerful religious and secular leaders, survived until contact with _______________________ began.
3. The earliest North American culture to build extensive earthworks was called the __________________ culture.
4. Two mound-building cultures that preceded the temple mound builders like those at Cahokia were the ____________________ and ________________________.
5. Most cities have ______________________ where their inhabitants acquire goods.
6. Karl Wittfogel coined the term ___________________ __________________ to describe early civilizations dependent on irrigation agriculture.
7. In cities, centralized institutions have the ________________ to insure the public safety and regulate internal affairs.
8. Competing views or __________________ is an accompaniment to any dominant ideology.
9. Like the clerks at Ur who had to maintain commercial records, the Minoans and Mycenaeans created _____________ ________________ known as Linear A and Linear B.
10. Moche, Egyptian, Babylonian, or Nubian _________________ are visual reminders of a state's ideology, reinforcing the power of supreme rulers and their special relationships to the gods and the spiritual world.
11. The ancient Egyptians considered their pharaoh to be a _______________.
12. Both the Nile Valley and the Mesopotamian floodplain are regions of the world that possess exceptional agricultural _____________________________; this influenced models of state development built upon archaeological evidence from these regions.
13. Nagada and Hierakonpolis were large towns that became political and economic "central places" in ancient _______________________.