Vocabulary/Social Class
The yellow dust like substance that spread to the rivers and made the soil fertile.
What is loess?
The Yellow River empties into the __
What is the Yellow Sea?
Religion in China began with the ___ dynasty.
What is the Shang?
Were the ancient Chinese monotheistic or polytheistic?
What is polytheistic?
This measures over 1500 miles long.
What is the Great Wall of China?
members of wealthy families who usually ruled dynasties
What are aristocrats?
The Yangtze River empties into the ___
What is the East China Sea?
The ___ dynasty was the longest running dynasty.
What is the Zhou?
The Chinese attempted to please the gods with __ and ___.
What is food and other goods?
This machine was developed to detect earthquakes.
What is the seismograph?
a government ruled by one family
What is a dynasty?
The ___ Mountains separate China from southern Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
During this dynasty the government was run by Confucianism.
What is the Han Dynasty?
___ were used to find out the answers to important questions. Only priests could read them.
What are oracle bones?
This was built by Shihguandi to guard his tomb.
What is the Terracotta Army?
90% of China's population were ___.
What are farmers?
The __ River is called the "Cradle of Chinese Civilization".
What is the Yellow River?
The __ dynasty was the shortest lasting only 15 years.
What is the Qin?
Name the 3 major philosophies practiced in ancient China.
What are Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism?
The ___ was set up for the empire's best students.
What is the Grand School?
___were not well respected members of society.
Who are Merchants
__ and ___ acted as a wall around China limiting contact between them and other civilizations.
What are mountains and deserts?
During the Shang dynasty, ___ was the wife of the emperor- she ran her own city and led her own army.
Who is Fu-Hao?
The central idea of __ was duty.
What is Confucianism?
The ancient Chinese made __ from the bark of mulberry trees.
What is paper?