Chinese Culture
This is how the Chinese viewed people who lived outside of their civilization
Who are barbarians?
The two major river systems in china are.
What are the hang he and Chang Jiang?
The Chinese building along the Huang He were called
What are farming settlements?
Iron played an important factor to help boost improvements in the Zhai Dynasty' technology and trade by doing this.
What is creating weapons, agricultural tools, and making more productions?
The name the Chinese gave to their kingdom because they saw their country as the center of the civilized world.
What is the middle kingdom?
This isolated china from other civilizations.
What are natural barriers?
Xia did this so settlements could grow.
What are flood controls and irrigation systems?
The longest lasting of ancient Chinese civilizations
What is the Zhou dynasty?
In China a persons chief loyalty was to
What is family?
The nickname given to the yellow river
What is china's sorrow?
The oldest and most important Shang city
What is Anyang?
Some signs that ancestral spirirts were displeased with a king's rule
What are floods, riots, and disasters?
The Chinese worshipped this God through oracle bones and ancestral spirits.
Who is Shang Di?
This percent of china's land is suitable for farming
What is 10%
The Shang surrounded their cities with this
What are massive earthen walls?
The mandate of heaven does this after ancestral spirits show displease with a kings rule.
Why does the mandate of heaven pass over their title to another family?
True or False? The Chinese written language helped unify a large and diverse land.
true
This is china's heartland
What is the north china plain?
Because the Shang were constantly at war, they
Why did the Shang build walls around their cities?
This happened when the nomads invaded and took over with oppressive forces.
Why did Zhou empire slowly deteriorate?