The Spread of Civilization

The group that give up their nomadic lifestyle for farming in the process of setteling India

Hieratic script, a simplfied version of Egyptian hierogplyphic writing, was used

The longest river in the world, annual floods provided rich soil for the Egyptians

Around 900 BC, the Chavin people built a temple surrounded by two pyramids in the coastal regions of what is now

Egyptian society, with the god-king at the top, was organized like

A basic principle of Chinese government, which says a ruler gains the right to rule from the Gods

An important river in India that provided rich farm land for the people of India.

The Chinese developed a simple script with a form that was mainly pictographic and ideographic by the time of the

Most of the people in the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan were

A city that appeared around 2500 BC in the Supe valley of Peru

Mesoamerican civilization that pre-dated the Maya.

The cradle of Indian civilization, which enjoyed a moderate climate in ancient times

A civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean that built structures similar to the labyrinth of King Minos

The geographic feature that isolated China from India.

It was believed that the king was the link between Heaven and Earth during the

Religion and political power were closely linked as indicated in

The "ten lost tribes" were

The upper class in Shang society whose wealth was land based and who passed power from on generation to the next.

Unlike other religions of the time, political leaders in Israel

The key to China's social system

The period during which the Great Pyramid of King Khufu at Giza was constructed, showing the power of Egypt

The center of Zapotec civilization