Egypt
what is Egyptian religion?
What is Polytheistic?
What were three features of Shang culture?
Priests and royalty ( kings )
Wealthy merchants
Ordinary Workers
What is Three social classes.
, sometimes referred to as the Egyptian Empire, is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt
In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another
what is ying and yang
What is the process of embalming and preserving a body?
What is mummification?
Name 3 important values of the Shang Culture.
What is..
- From very early on, the idea of the “group” /
community more important than the idea of
“individual”/ or any single person.
- Emphasis on family, respect of parents
- Family emphasized in religion too –
ancestor worship.
What is one of the first writing system
was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
What is Hatshepsut
a system of government by one person with absolute power.
what is Autocracy
this class of people is made up of the royal family
What is the Royal Family
Name two important changes brought by the Zhou.
What is
- A new idea of royalty that claimed rulers got their authority from heaven. This was known as the Mandate from Heaven.
-The Zhou gave large regions of land and privileges to a select few nobles who then owed loyalty to the king in return. This type of political system the Zhou introduced is called feudalism.
What did the Mesopotamia invent?
What is wheel,the sail,the plow
In Confucian and Chinese Buddhist ethics, filial piety is a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. The Confucian Classic of Filial Piety, thought to be written around the Qin-Han period, has historically been the authoritative source on the Confucian tenet of filial piety.
What is Filial Piety
founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified Chin
What is Shi Huangdi
This class is made up off landowners, priests, Army Commanders, and Government Officials
What is Upper Class.
Why did China develop apart from other cultures?
What is..China’s geography ocean, desert, high mountains, isolated China.Isolated geographically, cut off from trade, there would be little opportunity for cultural diffusion in China’s case. Developing in a vacuum, China’s civilization would stand out as the most unique of our world’s early civilizations.
What were they the first to use?
What is Broze
Taoism or Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao. The Tao is a fundamental idea in most Chinese philosophical schools; in Taoism, however, it denotes the principle that is the source, pattern and substance of everything that exists.
What is Daoism
the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire
What is Cyrus II
This class is made up of peasants,farmers, and unskilled laborers.
What is Lower Class
How long was the Shang dynasty around for.
What is 1700-1027 B.C.
Name 3 other Mesopotamian achievements
What is.. one of the earliest sketched maps astronomy
a number system in base 60 from which stems our modern units of measuring time
and the 360 degrees of a circle.
first dynasty of imperial china
what is Qin Dynasty
an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran.
What is Medes