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Six men labor in a miniature one of these structures, while nine scribes write in an adjacent room, in a typical Egyptian wooden tomb model held at the Met. Words meaning “wall” and “room,” agadir and ghorfa, name the multi-storied examples of these structures (-5[1])attached to ksar citadels in North Africa. The ancient Chinese concept of cháng píng, or “ever-normal,” structures of this type, (15[1])was adopted by Henry Wallace and supplemented by yearly loans under the New Policies of Wáng Ānshí. Next to (*) Mohenjo Daro’s (10[1])bath complex stands a building that Mortimer Wheeler dubiously identified as (10[1])a (10[1])“great” one of these structures. (10[3]-5[2])A passage in Genesis in which these structures are built after a (10[1])dream of seven lean (10[1])cows prompted medieval writers to misidentify the Pyramids (10[1])as these structures. (-5[1])For 10 points, name these often elevated and ventilated storehouses for threshed cereal crops. (10[2]0[1])■END■

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