The Geography of China
China's Past: The Shang Dynasty
China's Past: The Zhou and Qin Dynasties
China's Past: The Han Dynasty
Legacy of Thought
100
A yellowish-brown soil that blows in from the desert.
What is loess?
100
The period during which tools and weapons were made of bronze.
What is the Bronze Age?
100
"First Emperor"
Who is Shi Huangdi?
100
A relative who lived longer ago than a grandparent.
What is an ancestor?
100
Master Kung or Kung Fuzi
Who is Confucius?
200
"China's Sorrow"
What is the Huang River?
200
Commonly used to predict the future.
What are oracle bones?
200
Political divisions in ancient China.
What is a province?
200
People who go between buyers and sellers.
What is a middleman?
200
The divine right to govern for the good of all people.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
A mountain range located on the southern border of the Tibetan Plateau.
What are the Himalayas?
300
Pictures that represent words.
What are pictographs?
300
Built to protect Shi Huangdi in the afterlife.
What is the clay army?
300
The practice of using skills and talents to work in the government.
What is civil service?
300
This symbol shows that all forces have a complementary force.
What is the yin and yang?
400
Platforms of earth that look like stairs.
What are terraces?
400
According to legend, the creator of the universe.
Who was Pangu?
400
Cultivated to feed silkworms.
What are mulberry trees?
400
"High Ancestor"
Who is Han Gaozu?
400
The place of Confucius' birth.
What is Lu Province?
500
A cultivation system in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year.
What is double cropping?
500
The Shang capital.
What is Anyang?
500
Used to make farm tools and weapons in Eastern Zhou.
What is iron?
500
Wrote the first complete history book on China.
Who is Sima Qian?
500
The first great teacher of Daoism.
Who is Laozi?
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