History test chapters 4-6

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longest river in the world

nile

africas largest lake

lake victoria

africas highest mountain

mount kilimanjaro

japans most famous mountain

mount fuji

africas longest lake

lake tanganyika

africas largest desert

sahara

alexanders genral ptolemy

ruled eygpt

animism

belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits

author of oldest surviving hmn

clement

chung-kuo

ancient name of china

countries of southeast Asia that provide freedom to their people

malaysia, Singapore, and philippines

eygptian teenage pharaoh

tutankhamen

emperor of japan

mikado

first emperor of a united china

shih Huang ti

founder of the mogul empire in india

babar

great ruler of mali

mansa musa

greek father of history

herodotus

lao-tse

founded taoism

major river valleys of asia

tgris-euphrates, huang he, and indus

man remembered for carrying jesus’ cross

simon of cyrene

pharaoh with largest pyramid

khufu

reincarnation

continuous process of rebirth

taoism

founded by lao-tse,practiced by the chinese

african city that became a center if learning and culture

timbuktu, a trading center

african city that was an Egyptian center of life and one of the e great Arab cities

ciaro

ancient civilization built in Africa's interior

kingdom of cush

ancient name mizraim

eygpt

the civilization for which the book of the dead is important

ancient eygpt

the country where Shintoism originated and still survives

japan

definition and purpose of the caste system

to divide people by age and occupation

dynasty that began India's golden age

gupta dynasty

false religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama that teaches reaching nirvana

buddhism

famous building built as a tomb for a mogul rulers wife

taj mahal

female pharaoh who ruled jointly with her nephew

hatshepsut

first country known to have made paper

china

french scholar who deciphered the Rosetta stone 

jean francois champollion

hiway linking china to the Roman world

great silk road

largest rift on the earths surface

great rift valley

leader who started the largest continental empire in world history

genghis khan

longest ruling dynasty in chinas history

chou dynasty

main are in which ancient India made its greatest contributions

math and science

major contributions or actions of asoka in india

built Maurya empire

name fro the warriors/knights of feudal japan

samarai

role of the Hyksos in Egyptian history

invaded middle kingdom of eygpt

roles of edesius and fermentius in history

missionaries

rosetta stone

helped decipher eygyptian hieroglyphics

ruler who is considered the founder of Japanese civilization

prince shotoku

ruler who united upper and lower eygpt

menes

travels of Marco polo and his service under a mongol ruler

served kublai Khan for 20 years in china

two territories that succeeded from India to become independent nations

pakistan and bangladesh

what object best symbolizes Egyptian state and society

pyramids

why china is considered the oldest living civilization

maintained continuously