The Geography of China
The largest country in Asia.
What is China?
China's culture is not the oldest, but it is this.
What is the longest continuous civilization?
The longest dynasty of ancient Chinese history.
What was the Zhou Dynasty?
One of the other names for Confucius.
Who is Kung Fuzi or Master Kung?
A yellowish brown, very fertile soil found on the North China Plain.
What is loess?
The use of pictures to represent words (part of the written Chinese language).
What are pictographs?
Jobs done by most people during the Zhou Dynasty.
What was farming (growing wheat, rice, beans, and fruit)?
The basis for all of Confucius' teachings.
What are virtues or morals?
The country's capital, and center of culture and government since the 13th century.
What is Beijing?
The oldest period of Chinese history.
What is the Xia (shee-ah) or legendary period?
Women were in charge of cultivating mulberry trees to feed these.
What are silkworm caterpillars (cultivated for silk production)?
The idea that people should make balanced decisions (part of Confucius' teachings).
What is the "middle way?"
Often called "China's Sorrow" this contributes to China's fertile soil, but also causes dangerous flooding.
What is the Huang River?
The first recorded period of China's history - part of the bronze age.
What was the Shang Dynasty?
The biggest engineering project in history, started by Shi Huangdi in the Qin (chin) Dynasty.
What is the Great Wall?
Another of the many schools of thought that was popular in Ancient China.
What is Daoism?
The Zhuang people who live on the Tibetan Plateau.
Who are the biggest minority group in China?
The metals melted together to create bronze for tools and weapons.
What are copper and tin?
In the Han Dynasty these people were highly valued for the quality of their writing.
What are scholars and/or historians?
One of the main beliefs of Daoists.
What is living in harmony with nature?