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| 205839661 | loess | silt of the Yellow River Valley; gives fertile soil; vulnerable to earthquakes | 0 | |
| 205839662 | Shang | dominant people of the earliest Chinese dynasty; had ancestor worship & bronze vessels for rituals | 1 | |
| 205839663 | Zhou | defeated the Shang; created the Mandate of Heaven; had time of prosperity but then broke down (warfare within each other) | 2 | |
| 205839664 | Mandate of Heaven | religious&political idea that Gods granted power to the ruler of China & took it away if the ruler failed to conduct justly to his subjects | 3 | |
| 205839665 | Legalism | political idea; ppl only behave with strict laws & harsh punishment; sacrifice personal freedom | 4 | |
| 205839666 | Confucius | Chinese philosopher Kongzi; ideas of public service& duty; influenced government officials& chinese | 5 | |
| 205839667 | Daoism | belief that the world is always changing and take it as it is; let things happen; CHILL | 6 | |
| 205839668 | yin/yang | nature of male & female; maintain equilibrium | 7 | |
| 205839669 | Kush | Kingdom of Nubia; along Nile; Egyptian rule/ influences by it; Egypt later destroyed it | 8 | |
| 205839670 | Meroe | Capital of Nubia; independace from Egypt; influence from Africa | 9 | |
| 205839671 | Olmec | 1st mesoamerican civilization; advances in economics &construction; infuenced later societys (art, calandar, ballgame) | 10 | |
| 205839672 | Chavin | 1st S.American civilization; capital is in the andes mts. (Peru); politically/ economically dominant; 2 zones- Peruvian Costal Plain & Andean Foothills | 11 | |
| 205839673 | llama | used in Andes mts. & S. America; for meat, wool, transportation of goods for trade btw. zones | 12 |
