The Three Gorges Dam was built to harness the power of this river.
What is The Yangtze.
100
The oracle bones were, according to most historians, probably created during this Chinese dynasty.
What is the Shang dynasty
100
Uber has their biggest business in this city (Which happens to be in China!)
What is Guangzhou (aka Canton), where business rose 3000% in the last year!
100
This invention of ancient China assisted in navigation all over the world.
What is the compass.
100
This animal represents the year 2016.
What is the year of the monkey
200
Besides electrical power generation, hydropower produces this benefit for people living near the river.
What is flood control.
200
The Shang Dynasty was during this time period.
What is 1600-1100 BC
200
Uber's Chinese competitor company "Didi Kuaidi" is significant for this reason.
What is state-run copy cat businesses are a huge deal in China and exist throughout most industries, especially the tech industry. "Didi Kuaidi" controls a much larger market than Uber does in China today.
200
This substance was initially used to frighten evil spirits, and in time was controlled to create weapons.
What is gunpowder.
200
Professor Reitz lived in this province of China when he taught English there for two years at an Agricultural University.
What is Shanxi province (Check your spelling, not Shaanxi)
300
Though creating a reservoir for a dam may displace both people and wildlife, the electricity produced this way produces far less of this than burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide (greenhouse gases).
300
The oracles were trained to read into the future based off of the cracks which ran along the writing of Ancient Chinese characters carved into this material.
What is plastron, or turtle shell
300
The largest human migration in all of history happened during this Chinese holiday this year.
What is Chinese new year/Spring Festival
300
Though it was originally invented in China, and greatly lowered the price of books, its use was less extensive than in the European Enlightenment due to the extensive number of symbols used in the Chinese language.
What is moveable type printing.
300
This is one reason why things break.
What is thermal expansion
400
In the world's standings of hydropower production, China inhabits this rank.
What is number one.
400
In ancient China the emperors employed both astronomers and astrologers to do these things.
What is predict how the stars and heavenly bodies affect humans, and to tell accurate time by observations of the stars.
400
The travel period during Chinese new years lasts this number of days
What is 40 days
400
This process allowed ancient Chinese scholars to write on mulberry, bast, hemp, and other vegetable fibers.
What is paper making.
400
This is the reason why the Hsia (or Xia) dynasty is not considered a historical dynasty.
What is no archaeological evidence from the period.
500
The Nu River is China's last remaining one of these.
What is an undammed river.
500
The oracle bones were cracked by this process.
What is holes were drilled to create weak points in shell and fire and hot sticks were used to expand the bone
500
These two online sources are good places to start browsing for Chinese news as you prepare your "News Blasts" for Contemporary Affairs.
What is BBC Asia, New York Times Asia, CCTV, and People's Daily English
500
If you wanted to tell time this was the best the eighth century had to offer, but don't expect to be able to carry it with you.
What is the Mechanical Clock (Water Clock).
500
This is the number of days after the deadline that assignments will still be accepted and the percentage of total possible points lost by not meeting a due date in Contemporary Affairs.