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Jeopardy 04
Civilization in Ancient India and China
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Family members whom Shang people revered
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ancestors
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Persons for whom ancient Chinese developed contempt
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foreigners
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What the Chinese considered all foreigners to be
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barbarians
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Ruling families in China
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dynasties
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Bandit leaders who controlled large areas of China
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warlords
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Living family members who were most respected in China
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elders
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Class of people who lived in Chinese cities
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rich
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Class of people who lived outside of Chinese cities
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poor
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People who civilization flourished in India between 2500 to 1500 B.C.E.
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Harappans
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Indo-Europeans who invaded northern India around 1500 B.C.E.
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Aryans
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Type of people that Aryans were- definitely not city dwellers
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nomads
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First historical dynasty of China
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Shang
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Class OF people just below the Shang rulers
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nobles
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Stone Age inhabitant of China
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Peking man
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Most admired members of early Aryan society
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warriors
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Aryan priests
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Brahmins
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Physical characteristic of Aryans that separated them from the people they conquered
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light skin or height
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Legendary first dynasty of China
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Xia
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People who overthrew China's first historical dynasty
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Zhou
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Officials in charge of the Shang calendar
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priest-astronomers
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Legendary found of Xia kingdom
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Yu
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River whose valley was the site of India's first civilization
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Indus
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Northernmost of China's two greatest rivers
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Huang He
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Southernmost of China's two greatest rivers
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Yangtze
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Major body of water on China's eastern boundary
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Pacific Ocean
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Major Indian river that flows southeasterly
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Ganges
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"China's sorrow" or "the great sorrow"
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Huang He
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Large sea on China's eastern boundary
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Yellow Sea
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Desert in the north of China
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Gobi
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Major pass through India's northwestern mountains
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Khyber Pass
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Body of water into which the Indus River empties
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Arabian Sea
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Mountains northeast of India and southwest of China
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Himalayas
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One of ancient India's large cities, in ruins today
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Mohenjo-Daro
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Geographic term for India, rather than "country"
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subcontinent
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One of the three geographical factors that kept Eastern peoples isolated
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wide deserts, high mountains,
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Chinese term for the land of the two major river valleys
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Middle Kingdom
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India's northwestern mountain range
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Hindu Kush
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Broad area populated by the spreading Aryans
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Indus-Ganges plain
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Capital city of an early Chinese dynasty
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Anyang
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Large river south of China's two greatest rivers
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Si
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Mountains to the northwest of China
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Tien Shan
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What the Aryans did to the Harappan cities
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destroyed them
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Indian social structure that began under the Aryans Structures used to control the rivers
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caste system
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Structures used to control the rivers
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dikes & dams
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India's seasonal wind
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monsoon
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Most Harappan gods were of this gender
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female
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Harappan improvement in brick making
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firing
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Unique feature of Harappan cities' design
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city planning
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Crop used to make cloth, first grown by Harappans
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cotton
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"Modern" system that kept Harappan cities sanitary
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sewer system
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Center of each Harappan city
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citadel
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Grain-storage buildings in Harappan cities
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granaries
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Main crop of the Aryans on the central Indian plain
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barley
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Harappan cities were built on this feature as another form of flood protection
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mounds
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How streets were laid out in Harappan cities
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grid
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Artifacts that contain most of the known examples of Harappan writing
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seals
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The Aryan period in Indian history, from 1500 to 1000 B.C.E.
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Vedic Age
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Written language of the Aryans
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Sanskrit
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The Aryans' collections of sacred knowledge
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Vedas
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Huge watertight tank in a Harappan city
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Great Bath
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Indus Valley religion
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animism or polytheism
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Basic unit of earliest Aryan society
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tribe
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Greatest, longest Indian epic
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Mahahbarata
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Source of our knowledge about earliest Chinese history
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legends
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Structures used to contain a river's high water levels
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dikes
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The northern river sometimes did this when flooding
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change course
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Material produced for wealthy people's clothing
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silk
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Creatures that produced silk
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silkworms
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Legendary creatures that were driven out of China's river valleys
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dragons & serpents
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Two grains grown by the ancient Chinese
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millet, wheat,
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Material used for war chariots, weapons, and works of art
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bronze
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Forces in nature that the Shang worshipped
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spirits
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Improved metal used by the Zhou for weapons and tools
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iron
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Strongest connection among Chinese people
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family ties
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Main economic base of the Shang dynasty
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agriculture
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Type of calendar used by the Shang, adjusted as necessary
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lunar calendar
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Building material that was abundant along the Chinese rivers
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clay
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Ancient Chinese term for divine right to rule
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Mandate of Heaven
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Centers of early Chinese cities
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palace & temple
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Items that were inscribed with questions for ancestors
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bones
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Writing as an art, practiced by the ancient Chinese
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calligraphy
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Number of written characters a well-educated Chinese had to know
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10,000
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Material that gave the Huang He
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silt
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Social and economic division that weakened the Shang dynasty
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gap between rich
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