Why were the people of the Indus civilization wealthier than others?
If the Indus valley people were advanced enough to create planned cities, why didn't they try to invent something to protect them from some of the natural disasters?
In the Zhou dynasty, what things could you do to regain power if your dynasty had already weakened and been taken over?
In the book it says " Every family paid respect to the father's ancestors and made sacrifices in their honor'. Did they only respect the father's ancestors? why?
Why was the Indus Valley civilization so much more advanced than all of the other early civilizations?
Do you think the Indus Valley civiliaztion would have thrived and prospered in the Middle East with other civilizations such as Sumer, Egypt, and Assyria?
Why do you think other groups of people attacked China so often?
Why do you think that priests in ancient China decided to use oracle bones to consult the gods?
What were some of the major differences between early Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization? What is the best explanation on why these two civilizations differentiated in such a large way?
What kinds of tools, skills, and other resources might have been needed to construct such organized and well planned cities such as the Harappan civilization?
Typically only the wealthy could learn to write using the Chinese method of writing. Was there any specific law or rule that said the less fortunate could not learn to write? What was holding them back?
Why was family so important to the Chinese society? Has it always been this way? What would happen to the women if they were to not listen or do what they are told by the men in the house?
How different would our world be if the Indus Valley civilization was not destroyed until 500 years later?
How much more technologically advanced would our world today be if those who traded with the Indus Valley Civilization would have used their technological advancement in their own societies?
How did veneration of the dead begin?
Why did the Zhou say that the mandate of heaven was given to them because the Shang fell out of favor? Could they have created a better excuse, that would not have plant their own seeds of destruction?
Why did the Indus Valley Civilization need a strong government?
ReplyDeleteWhy couldn't the Indus Valley Civilization survive the natural disaster?
Why did women have a low role in the Shang Dynasty?
Would the Zhou Dynasty have been successful without feudalism?
What were the two most important rivers in the Indus Valley and why?
ReplyDeleteHow come civilizations in the Indus Valley weren't attacked as much as other civilizations we learned about?
Do you think the Chinese people thought it was easier to have more characters in their language than only twenty-six like ours?
What kind of questions do you think ancient people wrote on the oracle bones?
was the natural protection in the indus valley civilization the main reason not many wars happened with them?
ReplyDeleteif we found the tablet to read the indus valley civilizations language is it possible we would find out a whole other part of their culture?
why was the focal point in ancient Shang based on the family?
if chinas two main rivers had not flown through china. do you think the ancient Shang and Zhou would have settled their?
What sort of social differences did the Indus River Valley People have, and what did they affect?
ReplyDeleteHow did the Aryans actually make it into the Indus River Valley?
What was the rough population of China in the Shang and Zhou dynasties?
What sort of fallback did the people of China have to evade excessive flooding of the main rivers?
Why were the people of the Indus civilization wealthier than others?
ReplyDeleteIf the Indus valley people were advanced enough to create planned cities, why didn't they try to invent something to protect them from some of the natural disasters?
In the Zhou dynasty, what things could you do to regain power if your dynasty had already weakened and been taken over?
In the book it says " Every family paid respect to the father's ancestors and made sacrifices in their honor'. Did they only respect the father's ancestors? why?
How was ancient China's geographical isolation by rivers and mountains an advantage or disadvantage?
ReplyDeleteIn what ways are ancient Chinese culture and modern-day Chinese culture similar?
Based on what we know and can assume about the religion of the Indus people, how is it related to Hinduism, a major religion in India today?
What do you think was the most likely cause of the disappearance of the Indus civilization?
Why was the Indus Valley civilization so much more advanced than all of the other early civilizations?
ReplyDeleteDo you think the Indus Valley civiliaztion would have thrived and prospered in the Middle East with other civilizations such as Sumer, Egypt, and Assyria?
Why do you think other groups of people attacked China so often?
Why do you think that priests in ancient China decided to use oracle bones to consult the gods?
What were some of the major differences between early Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization? What is the best explanation on why these two civilizations differentiated in such a large way?
ReplyDeleteWhat kinds of tools, skills, and other resources might have been needed to construct such organized and well planned cities such as the Harappan civilization?
Typically only the wealthy could learn to write using the Chinese method of writing. Was there any specific law or rule that said the less fortunate could not learn to write? What was holding them back?
Why was family so important to the Chinese society? Has it always been this way? What would happen to the women if they were to not listen or do what they are told by the men in the house?
How different would our world be if the Indus Valley civilization was not destroyed until 500 years later?
ReplyDeleteHow much more technologically advanced would our world today be if those who traded with the Indus Valley Civilization would have used their technological advancement in their own societies?
How did veneration of the dead begin?
Why did the Zhou say that the mandate of heaven was given to them because the Shang fell out of favor? Could they have created a better excuse, that would not have plant their own seeds of destruction?
What caused the Indus Valley civilization to unite?
ReplyDeleteWhy did the Indus Valley civilization have a plumbing system before any other civilization?
Why was the Shang dynasty the first to unite China?
Where did the Zhou dynasty get the idea of feudalism from?