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| Conventional characteristics of civilization: the first inscriptions, or writing; cities; many kinds of full-time craft specialists; monumental architecture; great differences in wealth and status; and the kind of strong, hierarchical, centralized political system we call the state. |
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| A strong, hierarchical, centralized political system |
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Wedge-shaped talking about Sumerian writing formed by pressing a stylus against a damp clay tablet |
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Egyptian writing. Were written on rolls woven from papyrus reeds, from which our word paper derives. |
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