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| 9931865 | what is a ziggurats and what is its significance | they were massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes and they were significant because they were places where people could worship and they had significant shapes of step like pyramids symbolizing getting closser to heaven | 0 | |
| 9931866 | what is a city state and what is its significance | they are political organization that consisted of agricultural hintelands ruled by an urban-king the significance is that it showed the dezenterlization of the earlier civilizations | 1 | |
| 9931867 | what are barabarian and their significance | they were uncivilized people that lacked civilization and they are significant because that was how most of the Paleolithic people were | 2 | |
| 9931868 | whar is monotheism | monotheism is the worship/beilif in one god and it significance it was new to the river valley civilizations who had been used to polyotheism | 3 | |
| 9931869 | what is poloytheism | the belief in more than one god and it is significant because at the time of the river valley civilizations that was the main form of worship associating gods with acts of nature and other things like farming | 4 | |
| 9931870 | what is the mandate of heaven | the divine source for political legitmacy of the chinese rulers signifcance to history is that this how dynasties were made and passed on | 5 | |
| 9931871 | what are the four river valley civilizations | tigris-euphrates river, huang (yellow) river, Indus river, nile river | 6 | |
| 9931872 | how did the sumarian govt. combine civilization and a more formal political structure | they controlled the the religion and enforced its duties and they set bounderies and they had their own court system in the interest of justice | 7 | |
| 9931873 | why did slavery begin | because kings, noble class, and priesthood had alot of land and nee people to work so they would us prisoners to work the land | 8 | |
| 9931874 | why is so little known about the Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | because they were basically destroyed by the Indo Europeans | 9 | |
| 9931875 | what are two clear things about the civilization along the Huang river | they had an organized state that controlled irragation and they created advanced technology and an intellectual life | 10 | |
| 9935128 | what legacies did the river valley civilization imprat to the later ages | they left behind the alphabets and the developed a monarchies and bureaucracies | 11 | |
| 9935129 | what contribution did the phonecians and the lydians make | the phoenecians made the 22 letter alphabet and the lydians created coinded money | 12 | |
| 9935130 | why was the rise of judaism condsidered significant at the time | it was the first monotheistic religion and introduced the idea of monotheistic religions and judaism was not just a religion but a way of life | 13 | |
| 9935131 | what was the most important achievment of the palolithic people how did it occur | the most important achivement of the paleolithic people was the spread of humans across the earth. this happend because the need of food which caused migrations and the discovery of fire | 14 | |
| 9935132 | what was the technological accomplishments were made during the Mesolithic age? | stone tools were better than before because the weapons were sharper utilizing animal bones and use them as needles they made rafts and pottery | 15 | |
| 9935133 | why did agriculture occur | it was the end of the ice age and hunting was not reliable | 16 | |
| 9935134 | why was meatel working so important | improved agriculture and hearding and made better weapons | 17 | |
| 9935135 | why is the development if writing so vital to early civilization | it was cruecial so that theu can form political strucatures, taxes, record and send messages | 18 | |
| 9935136 | How many nomadic peoples contributes to world history | the contributed the to the imporvement of riding equipment and weapons and world trade | 19 | |
| 9935137 | the four initial center of civilizations | middle east, eygpt, northwestern india, northern china | 20 | |
| 9935138 | what is the difference between the river valley and classical civilizations | they spread past the bounderies and they were more durable than the other they also had iron technology | 21 | |
| 9935139 | what huange thinkers in china view of the world | they thought of the world as yin and yang and there was an opposite for everything | 22 | |
| 9935140 | contributions of the zhou | widened china, china benifit from both rice (north) and wheat(south), central government, cultural unity | 23 | |
| 9935141 | how the han dynasty expand trade | they expanded china's territory | 24 | |
| 9935142 | wyh did the chinese burearcracy outlive the empire | they had a check system on upper class rule and it limited the excercie of subjective power | 25 | |
| 9935143 | how did confucius believe people no matter what ranking should be treated | do unto others as your status and theirs didctates and people should be obedient and respectful | 26 | |
| 9935144 | legalism view of human nature | they are evil and they ne restrainsts and descipline | 27 | |
| 9935145 | characteristics of daoism | harmony with nature, stresses nature contains divine impluse that directs life, true understanding doesnt come until withdraw from world adn thinking more about life force | 28 | |
| 9935146 | what did the paleolothic people not do | develop argriculture | 29 | |
| 9935147 | why was developing writing necessary | help explain why govt could become more formal and bureacratic | 30 | |
| 9935148 | why eygpt was different than mesopotamia | eygpt utilzed slaves | 31 | |
| 9935149 | paleolithic age refers to | periodd which stone tools were developed | 32 | |
| 9935150 | civilizations writing began with | cuneiform in the middle east | 33 | |
| 9935151 | the babylonian ruler that created a set of law written in stone | Hamarabi | 34 | |
| 9935152 | 1500 BCE line of kings that ruled the Huang | Shang | 35 | |
| 9935153 | longest lasting civilization in stablity | Egypt | 36 | |
| 9935154 | era in which agriculture began | neolithic revolution | 37 | |
| 9935155 | major factor in china's development of classical society | ablity to remain isolated and avoid outside invasion | 38 | |
| 9935156 | china's classical period did NOT give rise to | buddism | 39 | |
| 9935157 | lower than the mean people | merchanats | 40 | |
| 9935158 | built the great wall first emperor | Zhou | 41 | |
| 9935159 | famous leader during the Han dynasty | Wu Ti | 42 | |
| 9935225 | what did wu ti set up for bureacrats tested into the system | schools and intutions of higher education | 43 | |
| 9935226 | disintergrated the zhou dynasty | warring state or the period of unrest | 44 | |
| 9935227 | author of daoism | Lao Shi | 45 | |
| 9935228 | art focused on | craftmanship | 46 |
