Name the city found which proved the Shang were real and not a myth
What is Anyang?
100
This material strengthened the Shang armies
What is bronze?
100
The other name for the Chiang Jiang River
What is Yangtze?
200
Yellow silt created by the Gobi Desert is called this
What is loess?
200
Which of the following describes China's climate:
Uniform, Mild, Varied, Moderate
What is varied?
200
What jade represented to the Shang
What is wisdom?
200
What the Shang standardized that helped unify the Chinese people
What is writing?
200
Describe the lifestyle of the people on the Northeastern Plain (how they lived, what they grew and raised)
What is nomadic herders of horses, cattle, goats and sheep on the grassy plains?
300
This geographic feature (include its name) protected China from northern invaders
What is the Gobi Desert?
300
This geographic feature (its name) is considered the most dangerous of its kind in the world
What is the Talklamakan Desert?
300
What the Shang wrote on (2)
What are cow shoulder blades (bones) and turtle shells?
300
What the Shang dynasty accomplished
What is control of all known Ancient China? (unification)
300
Describe the lifestyle of those in the Tibetan Plateau
(how they lived, what they grew and raised)
What is nomadic herders of yaks which provided meat, milk, yoghurt and wool for clothing and tents?
400
This geographic feature is lcoated in sw China and is at a very high elevation
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
400
Describe the lifestyle of people living in the deserts (how they lived, what they grew and raised)
What is they lived on oases, built mud huts, farmed maize, wheat and raised sheep?
400
What the benefit of standardizing writing throughout China
was
What is though spoken language differed throughout the country, everyone could understand the written characters which had been standardized so communication was easier?
400
Why a Shang king consulted an oracle (3 reasons)
What is when to hunt, go to war and build a city?
400
Name one material used by Shang artists and and example of what they created from it.
What is jade - discs to show status or for good luck, jewelry, figurines or
bronze - vessels
500
Describe the lifestyle of people living on the North China Plain (how they lived, what they grew and raised)
What is they built permanent homes of rammed earth, grew millet and wheat and raised cattle, sheep, oxen, pigs and chickens
500
Describe the lifestyle of those living in the Chang Jiang Basin (how they lived, what they grew and raised)
What is low coastal plains good for growing rice and raised pigs and chickens?
500
How the Shang kings maintained control of their lands
What is put sons and close relatives in charge of smaller kingdoms?
500
These three things weakened the Shang and allowed it to fall to the Zhou
What are too many costly wars; overspending by kings; corruption by the last king?
500
Designs created by artisans for their bronze works
What is geometric shapes, mythical animals and animal masks called taoties?