History

Question 1

Two rivers that surround Mesopotamia

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Tigeris and Euphrates

Question 2

Rivers where indus civilization settled along

Answer 2

Indus and Ganges rivers

Question 3

River where kingdoms in Egypt were centered around

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The Nile

Question 4

Named for its yellow silt

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Yellow river

Question 5

Seasonal wind in Southern Asia bring heavy rains

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Monson

Question 6

The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops

Answer 6

Irrigation

Question 7

Ancient Mesopotamian irrigation tool with a bucket and lever water lifting device

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Shaduf

Question 8

The cutting out of flat areas into new virtical slopes to allow farming

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Terrace farming

Question 9

Artificial barriers used to help control flooding

Answer 9

Dams and levees

Question 10

Some people call the later part of the Neolithic age the _ age

Answer 10

Bronze

Question 11

You may be unable to link complex trade routes due to _

Answer 11

Geographic isolation

Question 12

An agricultural method in which land is cleared and used for a few years until soil is depleted of nutrients

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Shifting agriculture

Question 13

Agriculture that takes place in the immediate surroundings of a permeant settlement

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Sedentary agriculture

Question 14

A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food clothing and shelter

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Pastoralism

Question 15

A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures

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Transhumance

Question 16

The variety of life in a particular place

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Biodiversity

Question 17

Type of annual tax that is payable by labor

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Corvée labor

Question 18

A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and can be bought and sold as such

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Chattel slavery

Question 19

Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks

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Ziggurat

Question 20

Huge triangular shaped burial tombs of pharaohs

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Pyramid

Question 21

Legendary Sumerian King who had many stories and legends written about him

Answer 21

Gilgamesh

Question 22

Legendary Chinese emperor who was the founder of the Xia dynasty

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Yu the great

Question 23

Land between rivers

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Mesopotamia

Question 24

Society that was ruled by a pharaoh and existed around the Nile

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Egypt

Question 25

Site of one of the greatest Indus Valley civilizations of the third millennium

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Harappa

Question 26

Second Chinese dynasty which was a farming society ruled mostly by warfare

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Shang dynasty

Question 27

Longest dynasty in Chinese history

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Zhou dynasty

Question 28

A form of writing developed by Sumerians with clay tablets

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Cuneiform

Question 29

An ancient Egyptian writing system in witch pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

Answer 29

Hieroglyphics

Question 30

The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period

Answer 30

Oracle bones

Question 31

Money paid for protection or to demonstrate submission and loyalty

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Tribute

Question 32

A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile valley noted for trade and tribute routes

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Nubia

Question 33

A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male

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Patriarchy

Question 34

A farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for planting crops

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Slash burn

Question 35

A formal organization of government labor with a higharchy of authority a clear social division

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Bureaucracy

Question 36

People who domanated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium BCE

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Babylon

Question 37

Set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire

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Hammurabi’s Code

Question 38

Principle of corresponding punishment

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Lex Talionis

Question 39

Method of determining innocence or guilt by subjecting the accused to dangerous tests believed to be under the Devine control

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Trial by order

Question 40

Indus Valmy city laid out in a grid pattern. Had a complex irrigation and sewer system

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Mohenjo Daro

Question 41

Nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient china

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Xiongnu

Question 42

A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

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Mandate of Heaven

Question 43

The historical pattern of the rise and fall of dynastys

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Dynastic Cycle