Chapters 1,2,3 WHistory Test
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- Achievement by Chinese
- paper, gunpowder, the great wall, and silk
- The need for the Egyptian writing system
- keeps records, and have history written down; in heiroglyphics
- The purpose of caste rules
- to ensure spiritual purity
- Why the Chinese system of writing was difficult to learn
- over thousands of characters to memorize
- Job of a historian
- study written evidence about past
- Why the Huang He is nicknamed the "River of Sorrow"
- flooding destroyed crops
- State structure of Sumer
- independent city-states
- Scholar officials during the Han dynasty
- responsible to place buerocrats into system based on how well they did on social service exam
- The basis of Confucian social relationships
- heirarchy/ obligation one has to one another
- Why the Mesopotamian and Egyptian priests developed considerable power
- interpreted the gods wishes
- Basic philosophy of Confucianism
- respect, honesty, and family
- The geographic feature that had the greatest influence on ancient Egypt
- Nile River
- First cities that emerged
- next to rivers, or river valleys
- Geography important to history
- shows connections between people, places and events.
- The extent of the Silk Road
- East Asia to Europe (Roman Empire)
- The merchant status in Chinese society
- lowest of the low
- Key features of early civilizations
- surplus of food, cities, division of labor, and political organization
- Basic philosophy of Legalism
- strict law and harsh punishment
- Example of a patriarchal society in the ancient world
- once married, the wife moved in with the husbands family
- Evidence that suggests that Indus valley cities had well-organized government
- Well-planned grids, and water and sewage systems
- whos teachings the Han rulers based their policies on
- Confucious
- Qin doctrine regarding the power of vassals
- broke up the power of the vassals
- Results of movement of people across the Fertile Crescent
- exchange of ideas, and cultural diffusion
- Aryans divided people into classes
- by occupation
- How the Hindus believed that the caste could be changed
- Laws of karma and reincarnation
- How the Aryans changed during the Vedic Age
- from nomads to farmers
- Who spread Middle eastern civilization throughout the Meditteranean
- Persians
- Womens status in Chinese society
- subordinate; patriarchal society
- Aided cultural diffusion among ancient peoples
- trade
- Difference between how Summerians and Egyptians viewed their rulers
- Egypt were gods, Summerians as agents of the gods
- What the Aryans learned from the Dravidians
- Farming and agriculture
- The Code of Hammurabi was a major achievement
- the first law code based on an "eye-eye, tooth-tooth"
- Culture that closely resembles the Chinese based on geographical influences
- Egypt
- Cause of ancient civilization changes
- contact with people through trade, warfare, and migration
- Ancient Egyptians viewed their pharaohs
- as gods
- 2 bodies of water that influenced early early Indian civilization
- Indus and ganges
- The idea behind the Mandate of Heaven
- allowed emperors to rule in dynastic cycles
- Highest Hindu caste in India
- Bhramin