Miscellaneous
The English alphabet has ____________ letters
What is 26?
Chinese civilization was shaped largely by the ___ dynasty, which ruled for 500 years and was the first family of rulers to leave written records.
What is Shang?
China's heartland or center of civilization.
What is the North China Plain?
The bull and tiger were ___________ symbols
What is religious ?
The Aryan people were an Indo-European group that emerged around 1750 BC. Into this region they migrated
What is India?
Maya's middle name
What is Alexis?
Around 1027 B.C., the Shang overthrew the ___ dynasty, claiming that their actions were justified by heavenly powers.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
Strong winds and monsoons were devastating environmental occurrences are frequent in the _____________River Valley
What is Indus?
This word that starts with u describes Harappan civilization as a society with many cities
What is urban?
The Vedas are a book of ____________
What is prayer?
Use of mud brick for building was present through this many of the 3 phases of Harappan life
What is 3?
The __________family and nobles controlled society in the Shang dynasty.
What is noble?
This geographic feature protected the Indus River Valley’s Northern region.
What is the Himalayan Mtns?
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were two major cities in the Indus valley region. They are well known for their ____________ city structure.
What is rigid?
What group made up the lowest level of the caste system
What is the untouchable
This kind of cell has a nucleus
What is eukaryotic ?
It’s the longest ruling dynasty in Chinese history
What is the Zhou dynasty?
China's first cities arose along the ___ where yellow silt, called loess, made the valley fertile.
What is the Huang He River?
Harappan language was ______________ meaning it used symbols that resemble what they represent to convey information, meaning, or a concept
What is pictographic?
A way to liberate its followers from illusions and mistakes of everyday life
What is Hinduism?
The United States has had ____________ presidents
What is 45?
The rise, decline, and replacement of families of rulers is called the ___.
What is dynastic cycle?
Another name for the Huang He River
What is the Yellow River?
Language developed in this phase
What is the Ravi phase?
In Aryan society, the Brahmins were…
What is priests?