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For what types of decisions did kings consult priests and oracles?
What is decisions baout planting, fighting, and building?
100
What were oracle bones?
What is pieces of bone or shell that cracked after the priests heated them with a metal rod
100
Who interpreted the meanings of the cracks in the bone?
Who are priests?
200
Where did the priests record the questions they asked and the answers they interpreted?
What is on the oracle bones
200
In addition to religion, what other matters interested the priests?
What is political and economic affairs?
200
How did the priests use their knowledge of these subjects to their advantage?
What is they used this knowledge to help them make interpretations of oracle bones
300
How were the priests viewed by the Shang dynasty?
What is they had great power
300
How are oracle bones helpful today?
What is they provide historical information about the Shang dynasty
300
What new family came into power after the Shang?
What is the Chou
400
In what two fields did the Chinese become interested during the Chou period?
What is pictographs
400
How did pictographs affect the method of writing?
What is pictographs were brushed on with fine strokes so that writing became a form of art
400
What is a more common name for a pictograph?
What is character
500
Do the Chinese today use the same pictographs as the ones used during the Chou period?
What is NO
500
How is Chinese writing different from the English way of writing?
What is Chinese writing is not based on the alphabet; symbols represent whole words or are combined to form new words
500
How many characters does Chinese writing have all together?
What is about fifty thousand
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