Roads were nothing more than dirt paths that were dry and dusty during the summer and muddy during the winter
-historylink101.com (Travel by Land in Ancient Greece)
This would be matrilineal, where the line of the mother was the relevant line, and not of the father: in order to be a king, one needed to have the royal mother and the father was irrelevant. The dynasty would be traced by the female line in this case (even if the kings were the rulers).
The development that probably hurt it is the reduction of open range herding. In history, people could just let their cattle roam freely and find food since the plains were huge and nobody lived in them. Nowadays, this can be problematic because there are more and more people and settlements and roads with cars so free range herding has been drastically reduced which cost the herders a lot.
He took all power, kept control of nobles, divided China into districts ruled by appointed officials, and organized a tax system.
Answer:
Brass matrix
Explanation:
The linotype machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant, later came to be known as an inventor in America. He invented the first mechanical typesetting machine that was able to use type metal to complete lines. This machine needed matrices, which consist of small brass pieces that have edges indented with characters that are grouped into lines to produce text.