What is the Monotheism?
What is believing in one god.
What is the name given to the "great houses" in Egypt. This is also the name given to the ruler at the time.
What is a pharaoh?
What is Polytheism?
What is the belief in many gods?
Under the early civilization of China, the farming communities were ruled by what class of people?
Who are the aristocracy?
What name was given to the peoples of Mesoamerica that were considered "first" in the area?
Who are the Olmecs?
What body of water did the Hebrews live near, when the originally came out of Mesopotamia? This is also the same body of water that the Phoenicians used to expand their mariner trade route.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What is the major river associated with the Nile civilization?
What is the Nile River?
What are the two major rivers associated with the Indus Valley?
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River?
What two major rivers are associated with the early Chinese Civilization?
What are the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze River).
What two large land areas were considered part of Mesoamerica?
What are Central America and South America?
When the Hebrews were in bondage in ________, __________ led them on an Exodus out of that area (you must answer both blanks for credit).
What is Egypt and Moses?
What was the administrative organization called that relied on nonelective officials and regular procedures?
What is bureaucracy?
What writing structure was brought to the Indus Valley by the Aryans and used throughout the Indus Valley?
What is Sanskrit?
A dynasty in China could rule, so long as they had the link between heaven and earth called what?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
What type of trees were found around the remains of the Olmec civilization?
What are rubber trees.
There was a feeling of hostility from surrounding areas, toward the Hebrews, because the refused to do what? This helped them maintain their identity, even after they lost their independence.
What is bow down to other gods?
What are three of the many inventions credited to the Ancient Egyptians?
What are hieroglyphics, hieratic script, pyramids, the Sphynx, mummification, 365-day calendar, precise mathematics, and papyrus (any combination of three).
What is the estimated population of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa during their peak?
What is approximately 35,000 people?
The concept of a son or daughter subordinating their needs to the male head of household is called what?
What is filial piety?
What are the two items were traded among Mesoamerica to make jewelry, tools, and monuments.
What are jade and obsidian?
What were the names of the two areas of land developed when the Hebrews split in two. These included one section for the ten lost tribes and the other section for two remaining tribes?
What are the Kingdom of Judah (two tribes) and the Kingdom of Israel (ten lost tribes)?
Parents arranged marriages for their children. What are the ages that girls would be married off and the age that boys were married?
What are ages 12 for girls and 14 for boys?
The ritual of suttee is when men were placed on heaps of material called pyres, which were then set on fire. What did the wives do when this was happening?
Who was wives were meant to throw themselves on the dead husband's funeral pyre and were held in disgrace if the did not?
What type of mystical artifacts did the Chinese use to communicate with the gods?
What are oracle bones?
The most impressive technological advances in Mesoamerica were what?
What are buildings, structures, or temples?