Egypt
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World History
Chapter #2 Test
Terms & Names
Irrigation: They dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allow them to produce a surplus of crops.
City-State: Acity-state functioned much as an independent country does today. Controlled surrounding cities.
Polytheism: Sumerians believed that many gods controlled the various forces in nature. (Belief inmany gods)
Empire: Brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of a ruler.
Mummification: Egyptians preserved a dead person’s body by embalmingand drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
Hieroglyphics: “Sacred carving”. Crude pictographs were the earliest form of writing in Egypt, but scribes quickly developed a more flexible writingsystem called hieroglyphics.
Subcontinent: Geographers refer to the land mass that includes what are now India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh as a subcontinent.
Monsoons: Season winds calledmonsoons dominate India’s climate.
Mandate of Heaven: To justify conquests, Zhou leaders developed over time into a broader view that royal authority came from heaven.
Feudalism: Dynastycontrolled lands that stretched far. Nobles or lords are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king. In return, Nobles owe loyalty and military service to the king and protection to the peoplewho lives on their estates.
Review Questions
11. - What is the Fertile Crescent and why is it called that?
Mesopotamia is the Fertile Crescent because is an arc of land that provides someof the best farming in Southwest Asia.
14. - Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?
Egyptians believed that their king ruled even after his death. They build pyramids for the king for a restingplace.
18. - Why is not surprising that China’s early settlements developed where did?
About 90 percent of farming lies within the comparatively small plain between the Huang He and Yangtze in...
Chapter #2 Test
Terms & Names
Irrigation: They dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allow them to produce a surplus of crops.
City-State: Acity-state functioned much as an independent country does today. Controlled surrounding cities.
Polytheism: Sumerians believed that many gods controlled the various forces in nature. (Belief inmany gods)
Empire: Brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of a ruler.
Mummification: Egyptians preserved a dead person’s body by embalmingand drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
Hieroglyphics: “Sacred carving”. Crude pictographs were the earliest form of writing in Egypt, but scribes quickly developed a more flexible writingsystem called hieroglyphics.
Subcontinent: Geographers refer to the land mass that includes what are now India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh as a subcontinent.
Monsoons: Season winds calledmonsoons dominate India’s climate.
Mandate of Heaven: To justify conquests, Zhou leaders developed over time into a broader view that royal authority came from heaven.
Feudalism: Dynastycontrolled lands that stretched far. Nobles or lords are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king. In return, Nobles owe loyalty and military service to the king and protection to the peoplewho lives on their estates.
Review Questions
11. - What is the Fertile Crescent and why is it called that?
Mesopotamia is the Fertile Crescent because is an arc of land that provides someof the best farming in Southwest Asia.
14. - Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?
Egyptians believed that their king ruled even after his death. They build pyramids for the king for a restingplace.
18. - Why is not surprising that China’s early settlements developed where did?
About 90 percent of farming lies within the comparatively small plain between the Huang He and Yangtze in...
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