World History and Geography Chapter 2

Question 1

characters or picture symbols in the Chinese language that represent an object, like a mountain or a sun

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pictographs

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Early Indian writings that reveal that India was a world of many small kingdoms between 1500 BC and 400BC are called the

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Vedas

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title of Egyptian monarch who possessed absolute power

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pharaoh

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the longest-lasting Chinese Dynasty, which ruled for almost 800 years and claimed it possessed the Mandate of Heaven

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Zhou

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Rich soil to grow wheat, barley, and peas in the Indus Valley resulted from

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annual flooding of the Indus River

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Another name for the "rubber people" who grew rubber trees along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico south of Veracruz was

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Olmec

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Oldest known Mesoamerican civilization, which appeared around 1200 BC

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Olmec

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The oldest major city in the Americas which appeared around 2500 BC

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Teotihuacan

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During the Shang dynasty, the class of people that owned the land and waged war were the

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aristocrats

Question 10

In which ancient Mesoamerican civilization did about 20,000 people live in terraces cut into the sides of a mountain?

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Zapotec

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A complex system of writing, meaning "sacred writings," that is made up of pictures and more abstract forms

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hieroglyphs

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On their northern and western frontiers, the Chinese people were isolated from people in other parts of Asia by

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mountains and deserts

Question 13

The Minoans Established

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a far-ranging sea- empire based on trade

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Highest mountains in the world, found in the far north of India

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Himalaya

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The Maya adapted a ball game played on a stone court, worshiped of a jaguar-like god, a calendar and a numerical system

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from the Olmec

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Significant nomadic peoples who spoke a language derived from a single parent tongue were the

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Indo-Europeans

Question 17

Public wells for supplying water, an advanced drainage system, and a system of garbage disposal indicate

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an organized government

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The Egyptians developed an accurate 365- day calendar by basing their year on

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the movements of the moon and the star Sirius

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part of a large complex of buildings dedicated to the dead

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pyramids

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a distinct group organized in tribes that established the religion of Judaism, which influenced Christianity and Islam

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Israelites

Question 21

What carefully planned ancient cities of the Indus River Valley flourished for hundreds of years

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Harrapa and Mohenjo-daro

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way in which dead bodies of wealthy Egyptians were preserved from the time of the Old Kingdom

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mummification

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The Hittites were the first Indo-Europeans to

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use iron weapons

Question 24

Who were the descendants of the Indus Valley People

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Dravidians

Question 25

characters in Chinese in which picture or character symbols are combined to represent ideas

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ideographs

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the development of Egyptian civilization was influenced most powerfully by

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The Nile River

Question 27

Which Indo-European written language was developed in the Indus River Valley in 1000BC

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Sanskrit

Question 28

The Phoenicians produced a number of good for foreign markets, including purple dye, glass and

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lumber

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Indo-speaking nomadic peoples w/ a strong warrior tradition, at first settled in northern India then controlled it

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Aryans

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In the northern frontier regions of ancient China, conflicts arose between the Chinese and the

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Mongolians

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egyptian history is divided into three major periods, known as the

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old, middle and new

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Harrapan rulers based their power on

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a belief in divine assistance

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a rich civilization that built an enormous place at Knossos on the island of

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Minoans

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religious teachers whos words became a source of ideals for social justice as they condemned the rich for suffering

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prophets

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administrative organization with officials and regular procedures that helped runt he government.

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bureauracy

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The basic economic and social unit in ancient China was the

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family

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migrating groups who domesticated animals for food, shelter and clothing and who helped spread language, goods and tech

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pastoral nomads

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the 2nd Chinese dynasty, which was mostly a farming society but also concerned with warfare

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Shang

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Religion provided the Egyptians with a sense of security, and Egyptian rulers were viewed as

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earthly forms of the sun god Re.

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Teotihuacan was a busy trade center known for objects made of

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obsidian

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traders who lived in a narrow strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean coast, devised an alphabet with 22 character

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Phoenicians

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