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More sophisticated social forms containing properties that can be observed. Archaeological example: all ancient civilizations hierarchy under king / emperor. Predictive sciences (e. g. , astronomy, mathematics) o o o civilization. Importantly, not all of these indicators are present in every ancient civilizations, e. g. , Little evidence for ostentatious display of power in harappan (indus valley) o o o. Little evidence for urbanization in old kingdom egypt or among the maya. Quipo - system of recording transactions of food e. g. quinoa. Most early writing is logographic o language) in vocabulary. One written symbol for each item (morpheme - smallest meaningful units of a o o. Characters stand for meanings, not sounds e. g. shang oracle bone inscriptions ca. Divination practices used for the emperor of china during the xia, shang, Later developments involve syllabic / alphabetic systems o. Syllabic - written symbol for each syllable o e. g. cuneiform (mesopotamia) and hieroglyphics (egypt)

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