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Not much is know about the Indus River civilization because?
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It desappeared before 1500 BCE and the writing is still undecipherable
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In the Americas, relatively dense Neolithic settlements emerged in all the following areas EXCEPT?
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The Great Plains
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Mesoamerican is located in modern?
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United States between California and the Mississippi River
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The mountain ranges that are across the northern border of the Inian subcontinent did what?
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Allowed India to develop a distinct culture
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The code of ethics preached by many Jewish prophets was what?
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Personal morality and social justice
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Who might have said, "The great Darius has made me governor"?
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A satrap
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The characteristic shared by the Babylonian and the Hebrew societies was what?
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The belief in one god
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The largest empire was built by which peoples?
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The Persians
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Middle Eastern civilization was spread throughout the Mediterranean by which peoples?
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The Phoenicians
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Evidence that suggest the Indus Valley cities had a well-organized government is what?
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Well-planned cities
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Shange religious practices and beliefs DID NOT include what?
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The belief in reincarnation
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A significant difference between the early government of the Hittites and that of Mesopotamia was what?
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According to the law, the punishment for crimes was made to fit the degree of the crime
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Historians are like archeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining what?
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Artifacts
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Historians use the five themes of location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region to study how human history has been affect by what?
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Geography
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Paleolithic people did NOT what?
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Produce their own crops and stay in one place
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Evidence that Paleolithic people believed in life after death includes what?
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Burying their dead with food and tools
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What WAS NOT a result of the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
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People began to migrate to find better farming land
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Why is geography important to history?
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It shows us that connections between people, places, and event
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The order of human development, from earliest to latest, is?
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Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
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One advance made by CroMagnons is the they what?
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Painted pictures on cave walls
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Humans developed the first calendars to help them do what?
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Farm their lands
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What marked the beginning of civilizations?
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The development of cities
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The balance of power shifted from women to men because?
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Men took over the job of farming
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Where did the first cities emerge?
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Along river valleys
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Historically, contact with other people through trade, warfare, and migrations was most important in what?
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Aiding cultural diffusion
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Donald Johanson and Mary Leakey are famous for their studies of the what?
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Australopithecus hominids
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The earliest form of writing was was?
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Cunieform developed by Sumerians
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The pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Sumer differed in respect to how they were used since the Egyptians used them as what?
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As tombs, while the Sumerians used them as temples
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Sumer was made up of what?
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Independent city-states
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What factor was most important in holding ancient empires together?
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Strong rulers
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Egypt's Old Kingdom collapsed because of what?
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Weak rulers and civil wars
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The Fertile Cresent was frequently invaded why?
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It had water and good land
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is what?
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A poem recounting the adventures of a Sumerian hero
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Why does Egyptian art often feature people from Nubia?
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Nubians were part of Egyptian culture through trade and warfare
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Egyptians were mostly?
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Farmers
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The movement of people across the Fertile Crecent resulted in what?
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The exchange of ideas
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India enjoyed a golden age during the Gupta dynasty why?
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Because the government promoted peace and prosperity
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Asoka's changes in governing policy affect the Mauryan empire how?
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By bringing peace and helping to unit the empire
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The Indian dynasty rulers were usually what?
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Tolerant of new religions
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Gupta mathematicians and scientists DID NOT what?
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Make very few advances
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How did Han emperors select officials to run the government?
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They set up a system of civil service exams that were open to anyone
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The trade route that linked China with the west became known as the what?
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The Silk Road
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The sequence of India's history, from early to late, is what?
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The Vedic, Maurya, Gupta
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Achievements of the Han dynasty do not include what?
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Engineers built the Great Wall of China
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All the early chinese dynasties created strong central governments except what dynasty?
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The Zhou Dynasty
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The dynasty that established the Mandate of Heaven was the what?
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Zhou
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Much of what Europeans learned about China in the 1200s came from the writings of who?
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Marco Polo
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What society most influenced the development of other civilizations in Asia?
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Chinese
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What was NOT true of China during the Song Dynasty?
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Poverty was nearly eliminated
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One element of Japanese culture that did NOT grow out of Chinese infuences was what?
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Bushido
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What society in Asia was most influenced by Indian culture?
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Cambodia
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Buddhism was introduced to Japan by who?
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Korean monks
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Kublai Khan adopted many Chinese practices but?
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Mongols were forbidden to marry Chinese
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What was the Pax Mongolia?
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The period when the Mongol Empire established peace and stability across Asia
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During the Heian period...
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Court life was far removed from the lives of Japan's common people
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How did geography shat the development of Japan?
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Surrounded by water, the Japanese turned to the sea for food and transportation.
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Under Song rule, civil cervice exams...
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Became more open to ordinary people
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What was not an achievement of the Ming dynasty?
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Created simplified form of writing so more people could learn to read and write
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During the Tang and Song dynasties, China changed in ways except?
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From frequent threats of invasion to long prosperous and peaceful period
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The "golden age" of Chinese civilization developed during which two dynasties?
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Tang and Song
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The text suggests that Korea and Vietnam had a stronger Chinese imprint than Japan why?
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Korea and Vietnam were closer to China for longer periods of time
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What was not a major turning point in Japanese history?
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The arrival of Islam in the ninth centure C.E.
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Traditionally, Japanese emperors were viewed as what?
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Lineal descendants of the sun goddess
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Nara and Heian Japan refers to an age in which Japan what?
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Made contact with China and adopted Chinese culture
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Samurai warriors were recruited from who?
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The local nobility
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The late twelfth century marked a turning point in Japanese history in ways except?
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Buddhism was replaced by Shinotism as the official religion of the samurai
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The correct chronological order for the different periods in Japan history is:
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Nara/Heian, Taira, Kamakura, Ashikaga
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The criterion of feaudalism that did not appear in Japan until the late fifteenth century was?
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Fiefs in return for military service
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What is the correct chronological order of the Chinese dynasties?
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Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan
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Before the sixth century C.E., the Chinese maintained imperial unity while the Europeans did not, for reason EXCEPT...
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Military ability and courage was more highly regarded in China
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The Chinese consider Song culture to be what?
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The epitome of Chinese traditional culture
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What is not true about modifications of Chinese influences in Japan and Korea?
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Both Korea and Japan accepted the civil service system in modified forms
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India enjoyed a golden age during the Gupta dynasty why?
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The government promoted peace and prosperity
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According to Hinduism, what is the ultimate goal of existence?
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To achieve union with Brahman
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Hindus believe in practicing nonviolence because?
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All people and things are aspects of Brahman and should be respected
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The desire for riches is overcome according to Buddha how?
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By following the Eightfold Path
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Asoka's changes in governing policy affected the Mauyan empire how?
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Bringing peace and helping to unite the empire
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The Indian Dynasty rulers were usually what?
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Tolerant of new religions
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Gupta mathematicians what?
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Developed the Arabic number system and the concept of zero
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The caste system gave people what?
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A sense of identity
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Confucian ideas dealt mainly with what?
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How to ensure social order
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According to Legalism, the way to achieve order was to what?
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Pass strict laws and enforce them with harsh punishments
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Daoists believed that the best government was one that what?
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Governed the least
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Mahayana Buddhism spread throughout China because?
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It offered the chance for anyone to achieve salvation
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How did Han emperors select officials to run the government?
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They set up a system of civil service exams that were open to anyone
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The trade route that linked China to the west became known as the what?
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The Silk Road
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Ancient Indian civilization produced inoculation, plastic surgery, and Arabic numbers but now what?
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Paper
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The sequence of India's history from early to late is:
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Vedic, Maurya, Gupta
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Caste could be changed how?
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By being reborn
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Achievements of the Han dynasty include the use of acupuncture, Cai Lun invented a method for making durable paper, and inventors developed the seismograph. They did not what?
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LUI BANG invented acupuncture
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Women in early Indian society can best be described as what?
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Obedient
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Important sacred texts of the Hindus include the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Vedas, but NOT what?
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The Analects
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All the early Chinese dynasty created strong central governments except who?
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The Zhou Dynasty
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The biggest problems the Huang River cause in China resulted from the river's?
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Devastating floods
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Shang religious practices and beliefs DID NOT include what?
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A belief in reincarnation
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The rise of ancient Harappan civilization was encouraged by what?
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Land that was enriched and watered by the Indus River
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Humbleness, thoughtfulness, and withdrawal from the world to comtemplate natura are all teaching of what?
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Daoism
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What occurs under feudalism?
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Local lords exercised great power
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The Mandate of Heaven is behind what?
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The dynastic cycle
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Both Hindus and Buddhists believe in what?
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Nonviolence
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In general, Deccan rulers reacted to new religions from the North by?
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By being tolerant
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Aryans divided people into classes by what?
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Occupation
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The Mandate of Heaven is the idea behind what?
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The dynastic cycle
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Evidence that suggest the Indus Valley cities had a well-organized government includes?
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Well-planned cities
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According to the Bhagavad-Gita, an important Aryan religious belief is what?
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A devotion to one's duty
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The Chinese were the first to achieve what?
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Silkmaking
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