Context: In many ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, architecture and urbanism reflected the constant engagement with the divine and the supernatural, and many ancient cultures resorted to monumentality in architecture to represent symbolically the political power of the ruler, the ruling elite, or the state itself.

Question: What civilizations used the divine and supernatural in their architecture?
Answer: Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question: What are two examples of past civilizations?
Answer: Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question: To what did these civilizations have ties that to were shown off by their architecture?
Answer: the divine and the supernatural

Question: What does architectural monumentality often represent?
Answer: political power

Question: What civilizations didn't use the divine and supernatural in their architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What are three examples of past civilizations?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: To what did these civilizations have ties that to weren't shown off by their architecture?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What does architectural monumentality never represent?
Answer: Unanswerable