Geography
What 3 Natural Barriers helped with the isolation of the Chinese civilization?
What are Mountains, Seas, and Deserts?
What invention could only be found/made in China during the ancient era?
Hint: Board Game??
Buddhism does not believe in what afterlife method that was relevant in the Hinduism religion?
What is reincarnation?
The name for a group of families all who claim a common ancestor.
What is a clan?
This term is used to describe the taming of animals for use as pets or food.
What is domestication?
What is a common geographic feature shared by all of the River Valley Civilizations?
What is a River Valley or River?
Name the 3 of the 4 major innovations from the Indus Valley Civilization during this unit.
What is Advanced Mathematics, Sewage system, Two Story Homes, and Pools?
The name for the seasonal winds that bring in dry air in the winter and wet weather and flooding in the summer in India.
What are monsoons?
When the Zhou overthrew the Shang, they used this to justify their actions and their right to be the new rulers.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A state that is powerful enough to expand and conquer other states, often keeping them as colonies and oppressing the people in them.
What is an empire?
What were the two most important benefits granted by settling civilizations by rivers?
What is to grow crops and farm livestock?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What military advancement most led the success of the Chinese army covered in this unit?
What is the Crossbow?
The name AND occupation of the highest class in the Indian caste system.
Who are the Brahmins and they are priests and scholars?
Legalism had similarities to what Ancient Mesopotamian code?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The term given to people who worship many gods.
What is polytheistic?
Two Chinese Rivers that were settled around?
What are the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?
What Chinese philosophy believes in the way of Nature?
The name of the people who migrated to India after the fall of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
Who are the Aryans?
Chinese civilizations had _______, which meant the next ruler was within the same bloodline as the last.
What are Dynasties?
What form of Civilization Government has not been mentioned in class whatsoever?
What is Democracy?
What are the Taklamakan Desert, Gobi Desert, Hindu Kush, and the Himalayan Mountains?
What is one way that the Agricultural Revolution led to the rise of civilizations? Explain why?
Answers may vary.
The name of the religion that was founded in the Vedas, and evolved into one of the world's major religions.
What is Hinduism?
The name for the 4,000 mile trade route connected China to the rest of the world.
What is the Silk Road?
A political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages.
What is a city-state?