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Chapter 4: Indus Valley and China, page 90
4.1 Early India
1. How did India’s geography affect the development of civilization there?
2. What were the defining features of the Indus Valley Civilization?
3. What do we know about life in India’s Vedic Period?
4. Why did Indian civilizations being in the Northern Plains?
5. How might the geography of India have helped protect the Indus Valley civilization?
6. Why do many historians think that a single central authority ruled in Indus Valley?
7. Why did priests gain influence within Vedic society
8. How do you think the development of the caste system affected India’s social structure after the Vedic
period?
4.4 China’s First Dynasties
9. How did China’s geography affect its early civilization?
10. What were the achievements of the Shang dynasty?
11. How did China change during the Zhou dynasty?
12. What new philosophies were introduced in China?
13. How might Chinese civilizations have developed differently if China had not been so isolated?
14. What was the purpose of the oracle bones?
15. How have Shang burial sites improved historians understanding of early Chinese culture?
16. According to the Mandate of Heaven, what made it possible for a government to be overthrown?
17. What role does balance play in Daoist teaching?