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Duplicate of Ch.2- The Spread of Civilization (play Monday, October 14)
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What was the second Chinese dynasty and was known for farming and bronze casting?
Shang
Qin
Zhou
Xia
2
What are the highest moutains in the world and are found in the far north of India?
Himalaya
Harrappan
Rocky
Mesopotamia
3
What is the administrative organization with officials that help run the government?
Oligarchy
Democracy
Bureacuracy
Feudalism
4
What is the title of Egyptian monarch who possessd absolute power?
king
pharaoh
leader
mayor
5
Who were the Dravidians?
descendants fo the Indus Valley people
religious teachers
upper class society in Egypt
strong warrior people of China
6
What is the city in Mesoamerica, located NE of Mexico City and has the Avenue of the Dead?
Caral
Teotihuacan
Tyre
Lima
7
What is the process of preserving dead bodies from the time of the Old Kingdom?
Photosynthesis
Hieroglyphics
Mummification
Sanskrit
8
What are large complex buildings in Egypt that are dedicated to the dead?
Bureaucracy
Dynasty
Pharaoh
Pyramids
9
What were the carefully planned cities in the Indus Valley?
Knossos and Crete
Tyre and Sidon
Giza and Memphis
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
10
What were migrating groups who domesticated animals and spread culture?
Pastoral nomads
Dravidians
Prophets
Aryans
11
To the north and the west, how were the Chinese people isolated?
rivers and platues
lakes and rivers
seas and ocean
mountains and deserts
12
What was the duty of members of a family to subordinate their needs and desires to males?
Dynasty
Filial Piety
Obsidian
Suttee
13
What were Egyptian rulers viewed as?
only god to be worshiped
disruption of cosmic order
sun god Re form on earth
manifestations of the land god
14
What was NOT a product that the Phoenicians produced for foreign markets?
Glass
Lumber
Purple Dye
Ivory
15
What is NOT one of the 3 major periods in Egyptian history?
Middle
Old
New
Lower
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What Mesoamerican civilization contained temples and pyramids in the mountains?
Olmec
Zapotec
Chavin
Inca
17
What was the basic economic and social unit in China?
artisans
bureaucracy
family
dynasty
18
What was most influential to the development of the Egyptian civilization?
Nile River
Marriage and Children
Invasion by others
Building of Pyramids
19
What volcanic glass was the busy trade city of Teotihuacan known for?
Obsidian
Silver
Murex
Quartz
20
Who were the nomadic peoples with a strong warrior tradition who settled in northern India?
Citadel
Dravidians
Monsoons
Aryans
21
What Mesoamerican civilization lived and farmed in terraces cut into the sides of Mountains?
Olmec
Zapotec
Aztec
Maya
22
What event helped early civilizations grow an abundance of food in rich soil?
Annual Flooding
Religious Ceremony
Change in Seasons
Annual Winds
23
What civilization on the island of Crete is known for the Minotar at the palace of Knossos?
Sumerians
Greeks
Minoans
Babylonians
24
What was the oldest major city in the Americas and appeared around 2500 BC?
Sumer
Caral
St. Augustine
St. Paul
25
Who were religious teachers who condemned the rich for causing the poor to suffer?
Aryans
Dravidians
Prophets
Saints
26
What is an Egyptian system of writing that is made up of pictures and abstact forms?
Linear A
Sanskrit
Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform
27
What helped the Indus Valley civilization have such great city planning-water, sewer, garbage?
strong warrior tradition
organized government
competition among tribes
change from nomadic to farming
28
During the Shang Dynasty, who made up the class of people that owned the land and waged war?
slaves
merchants
peasants
aristocrats
29
What did Harrappan rulers base their power on and was proven through the use of Oracle bones?
generous distribution of wealth
democratice government
stong military
belief in divine assistance
30
What was the Egyptian accurate 365 day calendar based on?
pharaoh's worship of the sun god
sun and moon movements
Sumerian calculations
information found in pyramids
31
What group who were organized into tribes established the religion of Judaism?
Zapotec
Egyptians
Israelites
Olmec
32
What are characters in Chinese in which picture or symbols are combined
to represent ideas?
filial piety
dynasty
pictographs
ideographs
33
Who were nomadic peoples who spoke a language single language?
Harrappan
Israilites
Dravidians
Indo-Europeans
34
What was the Indo-European written language?
Sanskrit
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Himalaya
35
What group of traders lived along the Mediterranean coast and had an alphabet of 22 characters?
Israelites
Phoenicians
Minoans
Egyptians
36
What is the oldest known Mesoamerican civilization and are called the rubber people?
Chavin
Olmec
Aztec
Inca
37
What civilization established a far-ranging sea-empire based on trade?
Aryans
Sumerians
Israelites
Minoans
38
What were the Hitties the first to use that was stronger and cheaper to make?
Wood Weapons
Stone Weapons
Bronze Weapons
Iron Weapons
39
What are characters or picture symbols in the Chinese language that represent an object?
Cuneiform
Phonetics
Ideographs
Pictographs
40
What civilization did the Mayan adapt a ball game, jaguar god, calendar, & number system from?
Chavin
Inca
Zapotec
Olmec
41
What South American civilization built an impressive solar observatory on a hillside in Peru?
Mayan
Zapotec
Chavin
Olmec