River Valley Civilization: India and China

Question 1

Indus river valley

Answer 1

• modern day Pakistan
• complex writing (yet to be decoded)
• indus seals (symbols)
• maybe more than one ruler?
• polytheistic
• long distance trade
• social class distinctions

Question 2

Mohen-jo-Daro and Harappa

Answer 2

• indoor plumbing
• private wells
• peaceful society
• social classes

Question 3

Indo-Aryan Migration

Answer 3

• • into India
• c. 1750 B.C.
• beginning of caste system
• Hinduism starts

Question 4

Shang Dynasty

Answer 4

• oracle bones (bones that have characters)
• bronze weapons
• ancestral worship

Question 5

dynastic cycle

Answer 5

• a new dynasty comes to power
• the emperor reforms the govt. and makes it more efficient
• lives of common people improved; taxes reduced; farming encouraged
• problems being ((extensive wars, invasions, etc.)
• taxes increase; men forced to work for army. farming neglected
• govt. increases spending; corruption
• droughts, floods famines occur
• poor lose respect for govt. they join rebels and attack landlords
• rebel bands find strong leader who unites them. attack the emperor
• emperor is defeated

Question 6

Zhou Dynasty

Answer 6

• longest Chinese dynasty

- mandate of heaven (used to justify over-throwing the Shang dynasty), (emperor rules form heaven)

Question 7

China

Answer 7

• dynastic cycles
• Shang: 1st dynasty (oracle bones)
• Zhou: longest lasting dynasty, mandate of heaven