Origins of Western Civilization: Chapter 2 Test

This society of people has little known about them because their system of writing has yet to be deciphered

• Indus River Valley People
• Hyksos 
• Zhou Dynasty
• Harmmurabi

These were Semitic people from Palestine who ruled Egypt from 1630-1523 B.C.

• Sargon of Akkad
• Deccan Platau
• Hykos
• Zhou Dynasty

He was the first one unite the Sumerian city-state

• Deccan Plateau
• Sargon of Akkad 
• Hyksos
• Indus River Valley People 

This is why the Huang HU River is called "China's Sorrow"

• monsoons 
• volcanoes 
• flooding 
• earthquakes 

Sumer's earliest governments were run by __________

• temple priest
• Zhou Dynasty
• Indus River Valley People 
• Sargon of Akkad

The flooding of the Nile was ________ and left behind __________

• unpredictable, nothing 
• daily, dry land 
• predictable, fertile soil
• predicatable, nothing

________ is one of three geographic regions of the Indian subcontinent 

• Hyksos
• Deccan Plataue
• Hammurabi 
• Sarrgon of Akkad

Royal authority that came from the gods

• Mandate of heaven
• Hammurabi
• surgery 
• empire

A Babylonian king known for his severe code of laws is 

• Hyksos
• Zhou
• Hammurabi
• temple priest 

Who made up the made up the fourth socail class in ancient Egypt 

• peasants, farmers, and laborers
• serfs and lords
• merchants