All About China
The region that the countries of Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia and Vietnam are included within.
What is East Asia?
A seasonal rain that strikes Southern and East Asia.
What is a monsoon?
A hillside cut into a step-like shape in order to grow crops.
What is a terrace?
What is the elite?
A person or item that tells the future through omens or prophecy.
What is an oracle?
The oldest recorded dynasty in ancient China.
What is the Shang?
A smaller body of water that connects back to a larger river.
What is a tributary?
A landmass that juts out into water but is still connected to a larger mass of land.
What is a peninsula?
A person one is descended from.
What is an ancestor?
The name for the belief that stated the Emperor was chosen by the gods to rule over absolutely everything.
An invention created by the Chinese to figure out where an earthquake is happening and how intense it is.
What is a seismograph?
A long high sea-wave caused by an earthquake or other sub-marine disturbance.
What is a tsunami?
A mound of earth built by a river to help prevent flooding.
What is a dike?
A term for a king/queen, prince/princess, duke/duchess or other form of wealthy landed nobility.
What is an aristocrat?
The steps and process taken to conduct a religious or magical ceremony.
What is a ritual?
The name for the geological region that East Asia sits in, which is known for its extreme volcanic and tectonic activity.
What is the Ring of Fire?
A carved out piece of land used to allow water to flow in order to help with transportation or farming.
What is a canal?
The loose yellow dust that gives the Yellow River its name.
What is loess?
A person of power through rank or wealth.
What is a noble?
The term for discerning the future through magic or communication from the gods.
What is divination?
The root word meaning "of China" or "Chinese".
What is "Sino-"?
A series of islands.
What is an archipelago?
The term describing how humans impact their physical environment.
What is human geography?
The term for a society controlled almost entirely by men.
What is a patriarchy?
The name given by the ancient Shang to the oracles they utilized.
What is dragon bones/oracle bones?