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40 Cards in this Set
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The early Chinese referred to their homland as_____, or the ______
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Zhong Guo, or "the Middle Kingdom"
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The _____,______, and ______ mountains and the sands of the ______isolate China from the rest of Asia.
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Tian Shan, Kunlun, Shan...Himalayas
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Three rivers that drain eastern China are the______, the______, and the _____.
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The Huang He, the Chang Jiang, and the Xi Jiang
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The ______ dynasty was the first recorded civilization in China.
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Shang
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Priests used ______ bones to predict the future.
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animal (or oracle)
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The artisans of the first dynasty cast many fine objects of ______and wove cloth of______
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Metal or Bronze, and Silk
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Archaeologists have identified _______capital cities of the first dynasty, one of which was_______.
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Seven, Anyang
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The leader who ended the first dynasty was named _____.
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Wu
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The ______ dynasty succeeded the Shang and ruled for 800 years.
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Zhou
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The Chinese believed their rulers governed according to a principle known as the ______________.
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Mandate of Heaven
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The Mountain ranges on the northern border of South Asia are the __________ and the _________.
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Himalayas and the Hindu Kush
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The plains are drained by three rivers, the ______, The ________, and the ___________.
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Indus, Ganges, and the Brahmaputra
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Seasonal winds called ______ greatly affect the climate.
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Monsoons
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The northeast wind brings _______ air to the region.
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Dry
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The Southwest or summer wind brings______.
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Rain
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The two ancient cities of South Asia were ______ and _______.
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Harappa and Mohenjo Daro
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Each city was laid out in a _______ pattern and was overlooked by a ______
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Grid, citadel
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Harappan farmers grew ______, ______, ______, and ______
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wheat, barley, rice, and cotton
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Artisans made products such as ______ and _______
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tools and jewelry
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Archaeological discoveries show that the Harappans traded with the people of _________
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Mesopotamia
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The two rivers that made up the Fertile Crescent.
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Tiris and Euphrates
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Temple made of sundried bricks and decorated w/ colored tile, built in each city-state.
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Ziggurat
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Why can the Sumerian city-states be called theocracies?
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Sumerian kings were millitary leaders and high priests who represented the city-states diety and head of religious belief.
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What were the Mesopotamian empires?
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Akkadia and Babylonia
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What was the pholosophy for Hammurabi's code?
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there should be a specific punishment for crime and penalty should fit the crime
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People of Egypt depended on the floods of the ________
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Nile River
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King ______ united Lower and Upper Egypt.
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Narmer
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Old Kingdom
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2700 B.C. to 2200 B.C.
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Egyptians built huge _____ to serve as tombs for kings.
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pyramids
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The egyptian process of embalming produced a _____.
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Mummy
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IN the new Kingdom kings were known as_________
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Pharaohs
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The name of the king who founded a new religion that worshipped only one god was________
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Akhenaton
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Two women of prominence during the New Kingdom were Queen _______and Queen ____.
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Hatshepsut, and Nerfetiti
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the upper class in ancient egypt was made up of _______, ________, and ________.
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Royalty, Nobles, and Priests
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The middle class in ancient egypt was made up of ________, _______, _________, and __________.
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Artisans, scribes, merchants and tax collectors
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the name of the egyptian sun god was________.
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Ra
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God responsible for life, death and rebirth was _________
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Osiris
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Champollion used ________ to decipher egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Greek Version
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Egyptians used the movement of the moon and the Dog Star, Sirius, to create a _________
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365-day calendar
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The capital of Egypt during the middle kingdom was ______
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Thebes
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