Early Chinese Geography
This river is known as the “cradle of Chinese civilization.”
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
A ruling family in China is called this.
What is a dynasty?
This structure was built to protect China from invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This famous trade network connected China to Europe and the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
This geographic feature made farming possible in China.
What is a river (or fertile soil from rivers)?
This mountain range helped protect China from invasion from the southwest.
What are the Himalayas?
This belief said rulers had a divine right to rule, but could lose it if they ruled poorly.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The wall was mainly built to defend against this group from the north.
Who are nomadic invaders (like the Mongols)?
This luxury fabric was China’s most valuable export.
What is silk?
This term describes how China stayed mostly separated from other cultures early on.
What is isolation?
This large desert to the north made travel difficult and helped isolate China.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This dynasty is known for oracle bones and early writing.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
This emperor is credited with beginning the wall’s construction.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This animal was commonly used to transport goods across deserts.
What is a camel?
The Silk Road helped China grow in this area.
What is trade (or economy)?
This river is important for farming and is the longest river in China.
What is the Yangtze River?
This dynasty created the Terracotta Army and unified China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Workers who built the wall included soldiers, peasants, and these people.
Who are prisoners (forced laborers)?
Besides goods, this also spread along the Silk Road.
What are ideas, culture, and religion?
This dynasty was the first to unify China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Geographic features like mountains and deserts helped China develop this type of cultural pattern.
What is isolation (or limited interaction with others)?
This dynasty improved trade and invented paper.
What is the Han Dynasty?
The wall also served this purpose besides defense.
What is communication/signaling (or controlling trade and movement)?
This dangerous desert made travel along the Silk Road difficult.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
This wall stretched thousands of miles across northern China.
What is the Great Wall of China?