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Question | Answer |
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Allowed Chinese rulers to remain in power only as long as they were just and effective | Mandate of heaven |
Government headed by religious leaders or a leader regarded as god | Theocracy |
A term that describes the rise and fall of dynasties | Dynastic cycle |
Large landmass that juts out from a continent | subcontinent |
Used by shang kings to talk with their ancestors and predict the future | Oracle bones |
One of two great large cities of the Indus valley civilization | Harappa |
Triangular area marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers | Delta |
United lower and upper Egypt | King Menses |
Ruler who signed the first known peace treaty | Ramses II |
A political unit consisting of a city and it's surrounding land | city-state |
What was found in 1801 that allowed us to decipher hieroglyphics | Rosetta Stone |
What evidence suggests that the Indus Valley cities had well-organized government | well planned cities |
Which of the following is a true statement about the Indus valley civilization | It disappeared without a trace and was only rediscovered in 1922 |
Large landmass that juts out from a continent | subcontinent |
What evidence suggests that the Indus Valley cities had well-organized government | well planned cities |
Which of the following is a true statement about the Indus valley civilization | It disappeared without a trace and was only rediscovered in 1922 |
The chinese system of writing was difficult to learn because it used | thousands of characters |
the mandate of heaven is the idea behind which of the following | the dynastic cycle |
most egyptians were members of which of the following groups | farmers |
where did the first cities emerge | in river valleys |
a system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed militia service and other kinds of support to the ruler is called | feudalism |
Which dynasty developed the feudal system in china | Zhou |
which of the following was first achieved by the chinese | silk making |
the egyptians believed in which of the following | life after death |
how did ancient egyptians view their pharaohs | as gods |
ancient people are called ------- because they believed in many gods | polytheists |
china was more isolated from the world than other early civilizations because | it is surrounded by mountains, jungles, deserts, and an ocean |
which of the following geographic features had the greatest influence on ancient egypt | nile river |
during what kingdom was the ancient pyramids of giza built | old kingdom |
the need to keep records led to the development of which of the following in egypt | hieroglyphics |
the code of hammurabi was a major achievement for which of the following reasons | it was the first major collections of laws |
chief minister who supervised the business of government in egypt | vizier |
sumerian writing system | cuneiform |
created a code to provide"justice" in babylon | hammurabi |
a pyramid shaped temple built by the sumerians | ziggurant |
united the sumerian city states into the first empire | sargon I |
name meaning the "land between the rivers" | mesopotamia |
how did the sumerians differ from the egyptians in the way they viewed an afterlife | they saw life after death as horrible |