Early Chinese Geography
Chinese Dynasties
The Great Wall of China
The Silk Road
Mixed Review
100

This river is known as the “cradle of Chinese civilization.”

What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?

100

A ruling family in China is called this.

What is a dynasty?

100

This structure was built to protect China from invasions.

What is the Great Wall of China?

100

This famous trade network connected China to Europe and the Middle East.

What is the Silk Road?

100

This geographic feature made farming possible in China.

What is a river (or fertile soil from rivers)?

200

This mountain range helped protect China from invasion from the southwest.

What are the Himalayas?

200

This belief said rulers had a divine right to rule, but could lose it if they ruled poorly.

 What is the Mandate of Heaven?

200

The wall was mainly built to defend against this group from the north.

Who are nomadic invaders (like the Mongols)?

200

This luxury fabric was China’s most valuable export.

What is silk?

200

This term describes how China stayed mostly separated from other cultures early on.

What is isolation?

300

This large desert to the north made travel difficult and helped isolate China.

What is the Gobi Desert?

300

This dynasty is known for oracle bones and early writing.

What is the Shang Dynasty?

300

This emperor is credited with beginning the wall’s construction.

 Who is Qin Shi Huang?

300

This animal was commonly used to transport goods across deserts.

What is a camel?

300

The Silk Road helped China grow in this area.

What is trade (or economy)?

400

This river is important for farming and is the longest river in China.

What is the Yangtze River?

400

This dynasty created the Terracotta Army and unified China.

What is the Qin Dynasty?

400

Workers who built the wall included soldiers, peasants, and these people.

Who are prisoners (forced laborers)?

400

Besides goods, this also spread along the Silk Road.

What are ideas, culture, and religion?

400

This dynasty was the first to unify China.

What is the Qin Dynasty?

500

Geographic features like mountains and deserts helped China develop this type of cultural pattern. 

What is isolation (or limited interaction with others)?

500

This dynasty improved trade and invented paper.

What is the Han Dynasty?

500

The wall also served this purpose besides defense.

What is communication/signaling (or controlling trade and movement)?

500

This dangerous desert made travel along the Silk Road difficult.

What is the Taklamakan Desert?

500

This wall stretched thousands of miles across northern China.

What is the Great Wall of China?

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