Ch. 2 - The Spread of Civilization

Egyptian artists and sculptors portrayed the human body

This civilization, though not Greek, influenced the peoples of the Greek mainland.

A government bureaucracy developed in Egypt

A city, located in a fertile valley in Mesoamerica, that was famous for its obsidian tools was

The earliest known people to farm along riverbanks on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico were

The Mandate of Heaven

Olmec cities such as San Lorenzo had pyramids and other stone monuments and were centers for

The Egyptian pyramids were

Two important rivers necessary for food production in ancient China were the Yellow River and

Monte Alban, which contains temples & pyramids on a 1,200-ft-high mountain, was the center of

Trade with other lands affected the Minoans by

One factor which made it possible for people to settle in the jungle along the Ganges River was

Along with a calendar & a numeric system, another characteristic of the Olmec civilization was

The Nile River, which flowed northward,

Sons were expected to

A major shift in India's culture between 1500 B.C. and 1000 B.C. was the result of

The cities of Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro

Egypt's golden age of stability and a period of expansion occurred

In Egyptian society, merchants, artisans, scribes, and tax collectors were members of

The religious beliefs of the Israelites were written down in

A 4-tiered structure, 200+ ft high, that towered above buildings along Teotihuacán's main road

Pastoral nomads often passed on new technology, such as the use of bronze and iron, by

The cities of Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro show evidence of

The Nile River is located on the continent of

The Phoenician culture is best known for

The longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history was the

The city ports of Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon were part of

Archaeologists studying ancient civilizations in the Indus Valley have found the remains of

Most of the 200,000 people of Teotihuacán were

A seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia that brings rainfall to the Indian subcontinent is

In ancient China, the family was important because

The majority of the people who farmed the land during the Shang dynasty were

The moderate climate of ancient India allowed the area to earn a reputation as

The Himalayas separated ancient China from

Along with pictographs and ideographs, the Chinese

During the Shang dynasty, the king ruled from Anyang, and the territories were governed by

The civilization that housed 20,000 people in terraces cut into the sides of a mountain was the

The Israelite prophets

Indo-European languages include Greek, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, German, and

India has a variety of geographic regions including mountains, river valleys, a dry plateau &

A culture which thrived in South America before the Inca gained power was the

Egyptian advances in mathematics

Ancient Indians began to have a written language in approximately

The Torah contains the fundamental principles of the

In Egyptian society, members of the lower class

During the Middle Kingdom, a pharaoh

Pictographs and ideographs

The place that Israelites viewed as the center of their religion & of the Israelite kingdom was