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| 35618409 | Harappa | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation , and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials. | 0 | |
| 35618410 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus Valley city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system. | 1 | |
| 35618411 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 2 | |
| 35618412 | Caste system | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity | 3 | |
| 35618413 | Yangshao culture | a formative Chinese culture located at Ordos bulge ca. 2500 to 2000 B.C.E.; primarily an intensive hunting and gathering society supplemented by shifting cultivation. | 4 | |
| 35618414 | Zhou dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism | 5 | |
| 35618415 | Yellow River | stretches over 3,000 miles, muddiest river in the world, loess-yellow-brown topsoil | 6 | |
| 35618416 | oracle bones | cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated | 7 | |
| 35618417 | sage kings | Legendary rulers of China c. 2800-c. 2200. Of the three sovereigns and five emperors based in the Huang He (Yellow River) region, Huang-tu (reigned c. 2697 BC) is credited with defeating the barbarians. The era has been associated with the domestication of animals, agricultural development, the gradual replacement of stone implements with bronze, and the formation of larger tribal confederacies. | 8 | |
| 35618418 | Anyang | the ancient Chinese capital of the Shang Dynasty | 9 |
