World History Chapter 2 Test

Unlike other religions of the time, political leaders in Israel

Indo-speaking nomadic peoples with a strong warrior tradition who settled in northern India

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

part of a large complex of buildings dedicated to the dead

Way in which dead bodies of wealthy Egyptians were preserved

The "ten lost tribes" were

The Olmec developed only these things… a number system and a calendar.

Religion provided Egyptians with a sense of security. How did people view the Egyptian rulers.

The Egyptians developed an accurate 365-day calendar based on…?

The Highest mountains in the world

Harrappan rulers based their power on

the longest-lasting Chinese dynasty, which ruled for almost 800 years

The basic economic and social unit in ancient China was

The most visible symbol of men's dominance in the Indian culture was the ritual of

The second Chinese dynasty, which was mostly a farming society but was also concerned with warfare

The Himalayas separated ancient China from North America.

religious teachers whose words became a source of ideals

characters or picture symbols in Chinese language that represent an object

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

Egyptian history is divided into three major periods,

Traders who lived in a narrow strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean coast devise an alphabet with 22 characters.

Most of the people in the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán were

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

The Zapotec, were a Mesoamerican civilization that housed 20,000 people in terraces cut into the sideof a mountain

The religious beliefs of the Israelites were written down in

significant nomadic peoples who spoke a language derived from a single parent tongue

The development of Egyptian civilizations was influenced most by...

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

migrating groups who domesticated animals for food/clothing

The Hittites were the first Indo-Europeans to 

Lower Egypt is located...

On their northern and western frontiers, the Chinese people were isolated by

Another name for the “rubber people” who grew rubber trees

A basic principle of Chinese government, which allows overthrow or corrupt ruler is called

A distinct group organized in tribes that established Judaism.

A rich civilization that built an enormous palace at Knossos on the Island of

Complex system of writing meaning "sacred writings" made with pictures

Upper Egypt is located:

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

The duty of members of a family to subordinate their needs to the male head of the family

title of Egyptian monarch who possessed absolute power

Descendants of the Indus Valley people

The Torah contains the fundamental principles of the Isralites.

The Maya adapted a ceremonial ball game played on a stone court, worshiped a jaguar-like god, and a calendar from the

Carefully planned ancient cities located in the Indus River Valley

The Jews believed that God had made a contract with them, called a

During the time of the Middle Kingdom,

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

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

administrative organization with officials and regular procedures that helped run the government

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

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

Indo-European written language that developed in the Indus Valley