Geography of Ancient China
Early Chinese Civilization
Zhou Dynasty
China
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100
Yellow silt.
What is loess?
100
Legends.
What are stories passed down from earlier times explaining origins or the distant past?
100
Heritage
What are a set of ideas that have been passed down from one generation to another?
100
Person who studies the meaning of life.
What is a philosopher?
100
Prisoners, Slaves, Peasants
Who built the Great Wall of China?
200
Chang Jiang and Huang He.
What are China's main river valleys?
200
Tang the Successful.
Who is the leader of the second dynasty in China?
200
They did not have virtues.
Why did the Zhou overcome the Shang?
200
Xiao
What is filial piety or the kind treatment of parents?
200
To make certain things alike.
What is standardization?
300
Basin.
What is a bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land?
300
Bronze vessels.
With what item did ancient Chinese use to honor their ancestors?
300
Mandate of Heaven.
What is the claim of Tian or Heaven that one with virtues may rule over China?
300
Kindness from parents to children.
What is ren?
300
Political regions of a country.
What is a province?
400
Dialect and culture.
What is a result of the separation caused by different landforms in China?
400
Oracle.
Who is a person who gives wise advise?
400
Kings, peasants, nobles.
What are the three divisions of classes in China?
400
Rewards and punishments.
What is system that Legalism is based on?
400
Civil service.
What is the system by which people are chosen for a job based on their skills and abilities?
500
Dialect.
What is a different way of speaking?
500
Symbols or characters.
What is the Shang dynasty's most important contribution to Chinese society?
500
Civil War
What is the result of the times when the people in China used their fiefs to create kingdoms?
500
Shi Huangdi.
Who is a strong supporter of Legalism?
500
From Chang'an to Rome.
What is the beginning and start of the Silk Road?
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