Duplicate of AMSCO World History Chapter 2 (2017)

How many major climate zones is Africa divided into

the world first writing system was called

Who made the lunar calender

Around what time did the Sumerians fall to invaders

Sumerians number system was based on what number

Which religion today traces their religious heritage back to Abraham

the English word "paper" came from what plant the Egyptians used to write on

Axum was founded on the present day

The noble class began to challenge the authority of the pharaohs resulted in

Who was remembered for developing the alphabet script

Golden Age in China was a period of

What is monotheisim

Set of laws that was one of the first to be written in stone

The Olmec developed the first writing system in the

What was the first Chinese musical instrument to appear during the Shang Dynasty

city-state priest assigned

By 2700 B.C.E., the largest city, Uruk, had a population of

Sumerian military leader became more important than priest. What was the military ruler called

What dynasty took over after the Shang dynasty

The code of Hammurabi main p8rpose was to protect people's rights. It was build on this idea

Hammurabi used taxes to

polytheistic means

Who were charged first with record keeping and later with the writing of history and myths?

Who reunited Egypt under a central government, reducing then power of the provincial governors

Egyptians learned to grow wheat and barley from

Captial of Egypt in 3100 B.C.E while King Menes was king was

Hebrew's descendants became known as

When Nubia fell what kingdom did it reemerge as

The Babylonians powerful King was

women in Babylonian society could be

One of the languages that Aryans used that is still used today is

major trade goods for Sumerian was

Mesopotamia was the area between

what percent slave were in Sumerians

The middle kingdom ended after an invasion by the pastoral normadic people name

What else did Sumerians produce other than food

What is deforestation

Why were the priests the first ruler in the city-states because

What was the foundation or core of several advanced civilization in Mesoamerica

Who developed a calendar based on a yearthat contain 365 days and was created to tract stars

Who brought the first horses to India

Mesopotamia means

Huang He and Chang Jiang rivers take sits name from deposits od loess which is

who did not believe in reward or punishment after death

Capital of Egypt while Mentuhotep II was king was

A system by which one thing is exchanged for another

Mummified, mummifying. To make a dead body into a mummy, as by embalming and drying

A group of close-knit and interrelated families

Egyptians was the first to develop__ and ___ skills to build pyramids and how the ___ ___ works

which two geographic features protected China from invasions