These two rivers created a fertile plain where the Indus Valley is located.
What are the Indus and Ganges?
100
What technological accomplishment is the Indus Valley civilization most known for?
What are plumbing and sewage systems?
100
This society was known as being relatively egalitarian.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
100
Name two major cities in the Indus Valley.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
100
He created the Babylonians first law code.
Who is King Hammurabi?
200
This was the capital city of the Shang dynasty.
What is Anyang?
200
The Zhou are credited with developing this technology, whose quality could not be matched until the Middle Ages in Europe.
What is cast iron?
200
This was the accepted social hierarchy in Mesopotamia.
What is slave - commoner - noble - priest - King
200
They are credited with building roads and canals to stimulate trade in China
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
200
A system in which nobles were granted the use of land in exchange for loyalty to the King, military service, and the protection of the people living on their estates.
What is Feudalism?
300
This river earned the nickname "China's Sorrow".
What is the Yellow River?
300
These were used to build structures in the Indus Valley, and were superior to those used in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What are oven baked bricks?
300
The Shang dynasty created walls around it's cities because:
What is they were constantly waging war.
300
The Chinese used this idea to explain floods, riots, wars and other calamities that indicated that ancestral spirits were unhappy with current rulers.
What is the mandate of heaven?
400
This is the percentage of arable Farm land in China.
What is 10%?
400
This is a fortified area that contained the major buildings of Harappa.
What is a citadel?
400
These were used by the Shang to consult the Gods
What are Oracle Bones?
400
These were found in Sumeria, indicating people of the Indus Valley traded with those from Mesopotamia
What are Indus seals?
400
This era began in China in 403 B.C
What is the warring states period?
500
These Mountains separated the Indus Valley from the rest of Asia.
What are the Hindu Kush, Karakorum, and Himalayan ranges?
500
This is why the Indus Valley cities were built on raised plains.
What is to avoid flooding dammage?
500
The pattern of the rise, fall, and decline and Chinese Dynasties was known as this.
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
500
Th Indus River provided a link to this Sea, enabling trade with other civilizations.