World History Ch. 2
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- The early Chinese referred to their homland as_____, or the ______
- Zhong Guo, or "the Middle Kingdom"
- The _____,______, and ______ mountains and the sands of the ______isolate China from the rest of Asia.
- Tian Shan, Kunlun, Shan...Himalayas
- Three rivers that drain eastern China are the______, the______, and the _____.
- The Huang He, the Chang Jiang, and the Xi Jiang
- The ______ dynasty was the first recorded civilization in China.
- Shang
- Priests used ______ bones to predict the future.
- animal (or oracle)
- The artisans of the first dynasty cast many fine objects of ______and wove cloth of______
- Metal or Bronze, and Silk
- Archaeologists have identified _______capital cities of the first dynasty, one of which was_______.
- Seven, Anyang
- The leader who ended the first dynasty was named _____.
- Wu
- The ______ dynasty succeeded the Shang and ruled for 800 years.
- Zhou
- The Chinese believed their rulers governed according to a principle known as the ______________.
- Mandate of Heaven
- The Mountain ranges on the northern border of South Asia are the __________ and the _________.
- Himalayas and the Hindu Kush
- The plains are drained by three rivers, the ______, The ________, and the ___________.
- Indus, Ganges, and the Brahmaputra
- Seasonal winds called ______ greatly affect the climate.
- Monsoons
- The northeast wind brings _______ air to the region.
- Dry
- The Southwest or summer wind brings______.
- Rain
- The two ancient cities of South Asia were ______ and _______.
- Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
- Each city was laid out in a _______ pattern and was overlooked by a ______
- Grid, citadel
- Harappan farmers grew ______, ______, ______, and ______
- wheat, barley, rice, and cotton
- Artisans made products such as ______ and _______
- tools and jewelry
- Archaeological discoveries show that the Harappans traded with the people of _________
- Mesopotamia
- The two rivers that made up the Fertile Crescent.
- Tiris and Euphrates
- Temple made of sundried bricks and decorated w/ colored tile, built in each city-state.
- Ziggurat
- Why can the Sumerian city-states be called theocracies?
- Sumerian kings were millitary leaders and high priests who represented the city-states diety and head of religious belief.
- What were the Mesopotamian empires?
- Akkadia and Babylonia
- What was the pholosophy for Hammurabi's code?
- there should be a specific punishment for crime and penalty should fit the crime
- People of Egypt depended on the floods of the ________
- Nile River
- King ______ united Lower and Upper Egypt.
- Narmer
- Old Kingdom
- 2700 B.C. to 2200 B.C.
- Egyptians built huge _____ to serve as tombs for kings.
- pyramids
- The egyptian process of embalming produced a _____.
- Mummy
- IN the new Kingdom kings were known as_________
- Pharaohs
- The name of the king who founded a new religion that worshipped only one god was________
- Akhenaton
- Two women of prominence during the New Kingdom were Queen _______and Queen ____.
- Hatshepsut, and Nerfetiti
- the upper class in ancient egypt was made up of _______, ________, and ________.
- Royalty, Nobles, and Priests
- The middle class in ancient egypt was made up of ________, _______, _________, and __________.
- Artisans, scribes, merchants and tax collectors
- the name of the egyptian sun god was________.
- Ra
- God responsible for life, death and rebirth was _________
- Osiris
- Champollion used ________ to decipher egyptian hieroglyphics.
- Greek Version
- Egyptians used the movement of the moon and the Dog Star, Sirius, to create a _________
- 365-day calendar
- The capital of Egypt during the middle kingdom was ______
- Thebes