Vocabulary
The average weather conditions at a particular place.
What is climate?
A region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began.
What is the North China Plain?
China's first civilization was the ______ dynasty.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Skilled Shang artisans worked mostly with these two materials.
What are Bronze and Jade?
Most settlers in Outer China were _____ due to lack of farmland.
What are herders or nomads?
A place, usually in the desert, where water can be found.
What is an oasis?
This area contains two regions: North China Plain and the Chang Jiang Basins.
What is inner China?
When a king died, the power of the king passed to this person.
Who is a brother or son of the king?
By the Shang dynasty, Chinese writing used characters that stand for words. This is called____.
What are logographs?
Farmers in the Chang Jiang Basins grew this crop.
What is rice?
A stream or river that feeds into larger stream, river, or lake.
What is a tributary?
This area includes three regions in the western and northern parts of China: the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, the Northwestern Deserts, and the Northeastern Plain.
What is Outer China?
This social class fought in the king's armies.
Who are the nobles?
Artisans made these tools for war out of bronze.
What are arrowheads, spearheads, ax heads, and helmets?
The Shang dynasty sometimes practiced this to show respect their ancestors, honor a king, and continue to serve in the afterlife.
What is human sacrifice?
A strong metal alloy made from copper.
What is bronze?
These geographical features isolated inner China.
What is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, The Taklimakan and the Gobi Desert.
Shang traders or merchants used these as a form of money.
What is a cowrie shell?
A jade disk was used for this purpose.
What is a gift from the king to a noble to symbolize power?
This social class lived in extravagant palaces and spent their free time hunting for fun.
What are kings and nobles?
A piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from the king's ancestors.
What is an oracle bone?
The first permanent settlements of Ancient China were in this area.
What is the North China plain, near the Huang He or Yellow River?
This social class was typically consisted of prisoners of war.
Who were slaves?
The practice of honoring ancestors through rituals, such as offering food to the spirits of the dead.
What is ancestor worship?
The Shang Dynasty was conquered by______.
Who is Zhou armies/ Dynasty under KIng Wu.