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| 892864597 | Indus river valley | river flows from sources in the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea | |
| 892864598 | Monsoons | seasonal wind crossing the India and Southeast Asia | |
| 892864599 | Harappan civilization | first civilization in India | |
| 892864600 | Harass and-Dar | major urban complexes of Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern | |
| 892864601 | Aryans | Indo-European nomadic, warlike, pastoralists who replaced the Harappan civilization | |
| 892864602 | Vedas | Aryan hymns originally transmitted orally | |
| 892864603 | India | chief deity of the Aryans | |
| 892864604 | Daises | Aryan name for indigenous people of the river valley region | |
| 892864605 | Caste system | rigid system of social classification introduced by Aryans | |
| 892864606 | Varnas | clusters of caste groups | |
| 892864607 | Polygamy | marriage practice in which the husband has multiple wives | |
| 892864608 | Polyandry | marriage practice in which wives have multiple husbands | |
| 892864609 | Patrilineal | social system in which descent and inheritance is passed through the male line | |
| 892864610 | Ordos bulge | located on the Huanghe river; region of fertile soil | |
| 892864611 | Loess | fine-grained soil deposited in the Ordos bulge | |
| 892864612 | Yanshoo culture | a formative chinese culture located at Ordos bulge- 2500-2000 BCE; primarily hunting and gathering | |
| 892864613 | Longshan culture | a formative chinese culture located at Ordos bulge-2000-1500 BCE; based on cultivation of millet | |
| 892864614 | Yu | a possibly mythical ruler revered for construction of a system of flood control | |
| 892864615 | Xia | China's first, maybe mythical, kingdom; ruled by Yu | |
| 892864616 | Shang | 1st chinese dynasty | |
| 892864617 | Vassal retainers | members of former ruling families granted control over peasant and artisan populations of areas throughout the Shang kingdom | |
| 892864618 | Extended families | consisted of several generations | |
| 892864619 | Nuclear households | husband, wife, and their children | |
| 892864620 | Oracles | Shamans or priests in Chinese society who foretold the future by interpreting animal bones cracked by heat | |
| 892864621 | Ideographic writing | pictograph characters grouped together to create new concepts | |
| 892864622 | Zhou | originally a vassal family of Shang; overthrew Shang and started the 2nd Chinese dynasty | |
| 892864623 | Xian and Loyang | capitals of the Zhou dynasty | |
| 892864624 | Feudalism | social organization created by exchanging grants of land in return for formal oaths of allegiance and promises of loyal service | |
| 892864625 | Mandate of Heaven | the divine source of political legitimacy in China | |
| 892864626 | Shi | probably originally priests; transformed into corps of professional bureaucrats because they knew how to write |
