Ch. 2 - The Spread of Civilization

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

The religious beliefs of the Israelites were written down in

The Mandate of Heaven

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

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

Sons were expected to

The cities of Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro

Egyptian artists and sculptors portrayed the human body

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

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

In ancient China, the family was important because

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

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

Trade with other lands affected the Minoans by

The Nile River, which flowed northward,

Egyptian advances in mathematics

Pictographs and ideographs

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

The cities of Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro show evidence of

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

The Phoenician culture is best known for

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

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

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

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

The Israelite prophets

Along with pictographs and ideographs, the Chinese

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

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

Ancient Indians began to have a written language in approximately

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

Most of the 200,000 people of Teotihuacán were

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

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

The Egyptian pyramids were

The Nile River is located on the continent of

In Egyptian society, members of the lower class

The Himalayas separated ancient China from

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

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

The Torah contains the fundamental principles of the

A government bureaucracy developed in Egypt

During the Middle Kingdom, a pharaoh

The longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history was the

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

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

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