Jeopardy 4: Far Eastern Civilization: Ancient India & China Flashcards

898218584	Family member whom Shang people revered	Ancestors	0
898218585	Persons for whom ancient Chinese developed contempt	Foreigners	1
898218586	What the Chinese considered all foreigners to be	Barbarians	2
898218587	Ruling families in China	Dynasties	3
898218588	Bandit leaders who controlled large areas of China	Warlords	4
898218589	Living family members who were most respected in China	Elders	5
898218590	Class of people who lived in Chinese cities	The rich (rich, learned, and skilled)	6
898218591	Class of people who lived outside of the cities	Poor (farmers, peasants)	7
898218592	People whose civilization flourished in India between 2500 and 1500 b.c.	Harappans	8
898218593	Indo-Europeans who invaded northern India around 1200 b.c.	Aryans	9
898218594	Types of people the Aryans were-definitely not city dwellers	Nomads	10
898218595	First historical dynasty of China	Shang	11
898218596	Shang government rulers	Hereditary kings	12
898218597	Class of people just below the Shang rulers	Nobles	13
898218598	Stone age inhabitant of China	Peking man	14
898218599	Most admired members of early Aryan society	Warriors	15
898218600	Aryan priests	Brahmans	16
898218601	Physical characteristic of Aryans that separated them from the people they conquered	Light skin	17
898218602	Lengendary first dynasty of China	Hsia	18
898218603	People who overthrew China's first historical dynasty	Chou	19
898218604	Officials in charge of the Shang calendar	Priest-astronomers	20
898218605	Legendary founder of the Hsia kingdom	Yii the Great	21
898218606	River whose valley was the site of India's first civilization	Indus	22
898218607	Northernmost of China's two greatest rivers	Yellow	23
898218608	Southernmost of China's two greatest rivers	Yangtze	24
898218609	Major body of water on China's eastern boundary	Pacific Ocean	25
898218610	Major Indian river that flowed southeasternly	Ganges	26
898218611	"China's sorrow" or "the great sorrow"	Yellow River	27
898218612	Body of water on China's eastern boundary into which the Yellow River flowed	Yellow Sea	28
898218613	Desert in the north of China	Gobi	29
898218614	Major pass through India's northwestern mountains	Khyber Pass	30
898218615	Body of water into which the Indus River emptied	Arabian Sea	31
898218616	India's northeastern mountains	Himalayas	32
898218617	One of ancient India's twin capitals	Harappa	33
898218618	The other of ancient India's twin capitals	Mohenjo-Daro	34
898218619	Geographic term for India, rather than "country"	Subcontinent	35
898218620	Three geographical factors that kept Eastern peoples isolated	Wide deserts, high mountains, and large bodies of water	36
898218621	Chinese name of the Yellow River	Huang He	37
898218622	Chinese term for the land of the two major river valleys	Middle Kingdom	38
898218623	India's northwestern mountain range	Hindu Kush	39
898218624	Broad area populated by the spreading Aryans	Indus-Ganges plain	40
898218625	Capital city of an early Chinese dynasty	Anyang	41
898218626	Large river south of China's two greatest rivers	The Si	42
898218627	What the Aryans did to the Harappan cities	"Destroyed them"	43
898218628	Indian social structure that began under the Aryans	Class division	44
898218629	Structures used to control the rivers	Dikes and dams	45
898218630	India's seasonal wind	Monsoon	46
898218631	Most Harappan gods were of this sex	Female	47
898218632	Harappan improvement in brick making	Kiln drying	48
898218633	Unique feature of Harappan cities' design	City Planning	49
898218634	Crop used to make cloth, first grown by Harappans	Cotton	50
898218635	"Modern" system that kept Harappan cities sanitary	Sewer System	51
898218636	Center of each Harappan city	Citadel	52
898218637	Grain-storage buildings in Harappan cities	Granaries	53
898218638	Main crop of the Aryans on the central Indian plain	Barley	54
898218639	Harappan cities were built on this feature as another form of flood protection	Mounds	55
898218640	How streets were laid out in Harappan cities	In a grid	56
898218641	Artifacts that contain most of the known examples of Harappan writing	Seals	57
898218642	The Aryan period in Indian history, from 1500 to 1000 B.C.	Vedic Age	58
898218643	Language of the Aryans	Sanskrit	59
898218644	The Aryans' collection of sacred knowledge	Vedas	60
898218645	Huge watertight tank in a Harappan city	The Great Bath	61
898218646	Indus valley religion	Animism	62
898218647	Basic unit of earliest Aryan society	Tribe	63
898218648	Source of our knowledge about earliest Chinese history	Legends	64
898218649	Structures used to contain the river's high water levels	Dikes	65
898218650	The river sometimes did this when flooding	Change course	66
898218651	Material produced for wealthy people's clothing	Silk	67
898218652	Creatures that produced silk	Silkworms	68
898218653	Legendary creatures that were driven out of China's river valleys	Dragons and serpents	69
898218654	grains grown by the ancient Chinese	Millet, wheat, barley, and rice	70
898218655	Where poor Chinese people lived	Countryside	71
898218656	Material used for war-chariots, weapons, and works of art	Bronze	72
898218657	Forces in nature that the Shang worshipped	Spirits	73
898218658	Reverence for a family's forebears	Ancestor worship	74
898218659	Strongest connection among Chinese people	Family Ties	75
898218660	Main economic base of the Shang dynasty	Agriculture	76
898218661	Type of calendar used by the Shang, adjusted as necessary	Lunar calendar	77
898218662	Building material that was abundant along the Chinese rivers	Clay	78
898218663	Center of early Chinese cities	Palace and temple	79
898218664	Items that were inscribed with questions for ancestors	Oracle bones	80
898218665	writing as an art, practiced by the ancient Chinese	Calligraphy	81
898218666	Number of written characters a well-educated Chinese had to know	More than 10000	82
898218667	Material that gave the Yellow River its color and name	Silt	83
898218668	Social and economic division that weakened the Shang dynasty	Gap between rich and poor	84