World History Ch. 2

Question 1

When was the time of stability?

Answer 1

Middle Kingdom (Also known as the Golden Age)

Question 2

Who made a what with God?

Answer 2

The Jews made a covenant with Him

Question 3

How were the Chinese isolated?

Answer 3

By mountains and deserts

Question 4

What is Egyptian history divided into(three things)?

Answer 4

The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms

Question 5

What did the Phoenicians produced(they traded this too)?

Answer 5

Purple dye, glass, and lumber

Question 6

What shape was Egyptian society organized similar to?

Answer 6

A pyramid

Question 7

An advanced city is an indication of what?

Answer 7

An organized government

Question 8

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

Answer 8

The basic principle of Chinese government

Question 9

What was the Chinese script made up of?

Answer 9

Pictographs and ideographs

Question 10

Rich soil to grow wheat in the _____ Valley resulted from ______

Answer 10

Indus Valley; annual flooding of the Indus River

Question 11

True or False:

Egyptian civilization was not influenced powerfully by invasions of other people

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Minoan civilization was destroyed due to a tsunami caused by what?

Answer 12

A minotaur

Question 13

Hittites were the first Indo-Europeans to use what?

Answer 13

Iron weapons

Question 14

What did the Shang dynasty aristocrats own?

Answer 14

Land to farm on

Question 15

What ten lost tribes were scattered?

Answer 15

Israelite tribes

Question 16

What is an ideograph?

Answer 16

Picture or character symbols that combined together to represent ideas

Question 17

During the Old Kingdom, what important pyramid was constructed and for whom?

Answer 17

Great Pyramid was built for King Khufu

Question 18

What was the first Chinese dynasty?

Answer 18

Shang dynasty

Question 19

What feature isolated China from India?

Answer 19

The Himalayas

Question 20

What are pictographs?

Answer 20

Character or symbol that represents an object

Question 21

What was the longest lasting Chinese dynasty?

Answer 21

The Zhou dynasty

Question 22

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 22

The Nile River

Question 23

Where was an important river was found for India?

Answer 23

Indus Valley

Question 24

What predated the Mayans?

Answer 24

The Olmec

Question 25

What is Sanskrit?

Answer 25

Written language developed in the Indus Valley

Question 26

What is the highest mountain?

Answer 26

The Himalayas

Question 27

What were prophets?

Answer 27

Religious teachers

Question 28

What was the job of pastoral nomads?

Answer 28

They migrated with their domesticated animals

Question 29

Phoenicians lived along ____________ and devised an alphabet with ___ characters.

Answer 29

eastern Mediterranean; 22

Question 30

Israelites were a distinct group organized into 12 tribes establishing the religion of __________.

Answer 30

Judaism

Question 31

What animal did the Minoans worship and where did they live?

Answer 31

Bull; island of Crete

Question 32

Mayans believed they came from ____ and worshiped which four colors of corn?

Answer 32

Corn; red, yellow, black, and white

Question 33

Be able to draw out and label the three different crowns of Egypt

Answer 33

Lower, upper, and all of Egypt